Archive image: A Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew during a hoist training with USCGC Mohawk (WMEC 913) in the Atlantic Ocean.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessica Fontenette.
HOUSTON – The crews of a Coast Guard RB-M, MH-65 Dolphin and HC144 Ocean Sentry rescue four mariners in a life raft after their vessel capsizes near Freeport, Texas. Monday, May 13, 2024.
Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a Mayday call at 4:47 p.m., from a crew member stating their tug and barge was rolling over on its side with four people aboard.
Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast (UMIB) and diverted a Coast Guard Station Freeport 45-foot Response Boat–Medium crew, an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, and directed the launch of an MH-65E Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew from Air Station Houston.
The MH-65 Dolphin SRR Helicopter aircrew located the life raft and directed the Coast Guard boatcrew to its position. The RB-M boatcrew arrived on scene and brought three people aboard and transferred them to Station Freeport.
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The MH-65E Dolphin rescue helicopter aircrew hoisted one person, who sustained a back injury, aboard the aircraft and was transferred to the emergency medical services (EMS) personnel awaiting at University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston.
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