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On Wednesday, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew saved a fishing vessel that was disabled and taking on water off of Icy Bay, a fjord bordering the Gulf of Alaska about 160 nautical miles southeast of Valdez. <\/p>\n
The Sector Juneau Command Center received a mayday alert from the fishing vessel Elise Marie<\/em> via an InReach satellite device at about 1900 hours Wednesday. The center ordered the launch of several assets to assist, including a C-130 Hercules airplane, a helicopter and the cutter John McCormick.<\/em><\/p>\n An Air Station Kodiak Hercules aircrew established communications with the Elise Marie<\/em> while an Air Station Sitka MH-60 helicopter crew was under way to deliver a dewatering pump. The helicopter lowered down the pump to the Elise Marie<\/em> at about 2100 hours, and the boat's crew was able to use it to keep up with the flooding while they waited for help. <\/p>\n "When we arrived on scene, the vessel captain had already prepared his vessel for the delivery of the dewatering pump, which greatly reduced our time in a hover over his vessel and allowed for the expedient delivery of the pump," said Lt. Justin Neal, an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter pilot on the case. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n The crew of Coast Guard Cutter John McCormick<\/em> arrived on scene the next morning at about 1030 hours, and she towed the Elise Marie <\/em>toward the port of Yakutat. The Yakutat Police Department took over the tow near shore and the vessel arrived safely in Yakutat at 2330 hours Thursday.<\/p>\n "This successful case highlighted the importance of mariner preparedness," said Lt. Joseph Sullivan-Springhetti, commanding officer of the cutter John McCormick.<\/em> "The master has good communication equipment and survival gear onboard, which allowed us to find them quickly . . . We were also really fortunate to have the support of the Yakutat Police Department, who met us late in the evening and helped bring the vessel in to the pier safely."<\/p>\n maritime-executive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew saved a fishing vessel that was disabled and taking on water off of Icy Bay, a fjord bordering the Gulf of Alaska about 160 nautical miles southeast of Valdez. The Sector Juneau Command Center received a mayday alert from the fishing vessel Elise Marie via an InReach satellite device …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[551,1579,2559,12668,1715,1580,1497,6028,12669,2693,4344,549,12667],"class_list":["post-20065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-alaska","tag-coast","tag-cutter","tag-elise-marie","tag-fishing","tag-guard","tag-gulf","tag-jayhawk","tag-john-mccormick","tag-rescues","tag-sinking","tag-vessel","tag-yakutat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/20066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}