Archive image: A rescue swimmer with an MH-65 Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi waves to spectators while performing a search and rescue demonstration during the Wings Over South Texas air show in Corpus Christi, Texas, May 7, 2023.
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 crews rescue an overdue boater 10 nautical miles offshore Matagorda, Texas. Monday, December 2, 2024, at morning.
Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders received a call at 11:45 p.m. Sunday from the wife of a boater stating her husband had not arrived at a planned destination near Ingleside, and was unable to contact him.
Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast (UMIB) and launched a Coast Guard Station Port Aransas 45-foot Response Boat–Medium (RB-M) crew along with a MH-65E Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew and a HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi to commence search efforts.
The HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew spotted the vessel near the Port O’Connor jetties and relayed its location to the helicopter and boatcrews. Due to the sea state, the MH-65E Dolphin SRR Helicopter aircrew was unable to perform a hoist for the stranded boater, and he was embarked onto the 45-foot Response Boat–Medium.
The boater was transported to Port Aransas with no reported injuries.
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