The US Coast Guard on Tuesday morning rescued three boaters whose craft overturned off the coast of Puerto Rico, leaving them clinging to the capsized vessel until help arrived.
A spear fisherman marooned on a pile of wave-swept rocks in the massive waves caused by a passing tropical storm was saved in a daring rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard caught on video
U.S. Coast Guard pilot on helicopter rescue of fishermen from doomed vessel off Nova Scotia
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Craig Campbell was piloting an MH-60T Jayhawk on his first major rescue mission March 2 when the Canadian Coast Guard called for help saving, in the dead of night and foul weather, 31 fishermen from a disabled fishing vessel 130 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He told Rotor Radio what it was like hovering at 90 feet while hoisting survivors from a bucking ship, without power or headway, taking 30-foot seas beam-on.
An infrared image shows a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk hovering over the sinking fishing vessel Atlantic Destiny about 130 miles south of Halifax Nova Scotia. Screenshot from Coast Guard Video