United States Coast Guard helicopter crews rescued 14 sailors from two life rafts after the 3-masted ship Bounty foundered in the storm-tossed Atlantic Ocean off Hatteras, N.C. this morning.
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The first MH-60 Jayhawk crew arrived on scene at approximately 6:30 a.m. and hoisted five people into the aircraft, and a second helicopter arrived and rescued nine people and all were taken to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., with no life-threatening conditions. U.S. Coast Guard video by Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C.
The Captain of the Bounty remains missing and 1 woman has been recovered.
NBC’s Today Show got a hold of the U.S. Coast Guard crew who conducted the rescue, as well as the Bounty’s owner. Check it out.
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excellent rescue daring efforts by the uscg.
Commotion to see the salvage. BRAVA COAST GUARD!
Clarity, precision & accurate effort by US Coast Guard pilots, swim rescue specialists and team on board MH-60 Jayhawks… successful mission~ appreciation, admiration & respect.
Good work to the brave USCG!
Those Coast Guard helicopter pilots have to be some of the best. That would be so hard to do…
Hats off to these brave men and women I knon, my son is one of them and I am a proud mom.
they deserve to be nominated for the imo award for exception bravery at sea 2013.
That must have been some nasty weather they were flying in. Having been hoisted by an HH-52 while serving at CGAS Traverse City I know there is rotor wash beneath the helicopter. Looking at the helo rescues on Coast Guard Alaska/Florida on The Weather Channel I know the current helos generate the same wash and I’ll be darn if I can see any wash in that video. There must have been some hellacious winds to deflect the wash. That crew earned their pay that day. A big BZ to the crew and their training.
Its an amazing and courageous service that our men and women of USCG perfom. Its comforting to know that they are there for those of us who choose live and dwell upon the sea.
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