Archive image: A U.S. Airman is hoisted into an MH-60T Jayhawk assigned to Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Florida, near MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, July 22, 2024.
Air Station Clearwater provided support for a water survival training exercise involving U.S. Air Force aircrew members assigned to multiple units.
The training exercise was part of the Air Force’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape curriculum designed to prepare Airmen for escaping a downed aircraft in open water.
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Joshua Hastings.
CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60T Jayhawk and an HC-130 Hercules aircrews rescue a sailor after his sailing vessel took on water 40 nautical miles off Crystal River. Saturday, September 14, 2024.
No injuries were reported.
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane and MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescue aircrews arrived on scene and located the sailors (man) aboard his partially submerged vessel around 2 p.m.
The MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew deployed the rescue swimmer, hoisted the man from the water in a rescue basket and transported him to Air Station Clearwater.
Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane and MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrews arrived on scene and located the boater aboard his partially submerged vessel around 2 p.m.
U.S. Coast Guard video.
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The distressed boater radioed Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders through channel 16, at 1 p.m., reporting his vessel was taking on water through a crack in the hull.
«The distressed boater did an outstanding job by wearing his life jacket and having a marine-grade radio onboard his vessel,” said Lt. Casey Skomer, an operations unit controller at Sector St. Petersburg. “These items contributed to him being rescued swiftly and safely.”
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