Members from Coast Guard units in the Corpus Christi area participated in the air show, which featured the U.S. Navy Blue Angels.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Auxiliarist David Lau.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The Coast Guard rescue a sailor from the water 12 nautical miles offshore Corpus Christi. Saturday, June 10, 2023.
Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders received a call on VHF-FM channel 16 at 4:43 p.m. that a man had fallen overboard from a 16-foot sailboat 12 nautical miles off the Bob Hall Pier. The man was clinging to an ice chest and not wearing a life jacket; the two other adults aboard the sailboat had lost sight of him.
Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and directed the launch of an MH-65 Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi and a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Port Aransas to search and rescue the lost sailor.
The MH-65 Dolphin SRR helicopter aircrew and the RB-M boatcrew searched for the boater until approximately 6:15 p.m., when the Response Boat-Medium crew sighted him and pulled him from the water. The man was uninjured, so the boatcrew returned him to the sailboat and his friends.
“Wearing a life jacket while boating is the only way to guarantee you will be able to stay afloat if you fall overboard,” said Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Bounds, operations specialist, Sector Corpus Christi. “If you’re on a small vessel, a portable marine radio can also serve as a critical link between you and the Coast Guard during an emergency.”
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