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PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is responding to a distressed fishing vessel approximately 15 miles east of Assateague Island, Md., Wednesday.
A man located on a life raft has been rescued by an aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C, and two other men are reported missing.
Coast Guard 5th District watchstanders initially received an emergency position indicating radio beacon alert from the 67-foot fishing vessel Seafarer at 10:39 a.m.
The watchstanders contacted the vessel's owner, who believed that the Seafarer had become disabled and the vessel's sister ship started towing the Seafarer. It was reported that the the ship lost the tow and sight of the Seafarer when weather conditions worsened.
Watchstanders dispatched a crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City to the Seafarers reported position. Once on scene, the aircrew recovered one man from a life raft and took him to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Md.
A 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Chincoteague also deployed to search the area.
On scene weather is reported to be 30 to 40 mph winds and eight to 12-foot seas.
| Date Taken: | 03.06.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 03.07.2013 10:24 |
| Story ID: | 103057 |
| Location: | PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, US |
| Web Views: | 131 |
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