Too bad they lost the vessel.
At any rate, in spite of my hostility toward "authority", if we are going to put in place a multi billion dollar emergency response network, then this is what it should be doing.
Responding to emergencies.
The skipper took a gamble trying to save the ship and it didn't pan out.
Good work you guys. I'm reckoning that was air station Wilmington or Sector Hatteras that responded.
Coast Guard begins rescue of crew of abandoned ship
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...guard/1665339/
8:13AM EDT October 29. 2012
U.S. Coast Guard helicopters have rescued 14 of the 17 people who abandoned their three-masted ship when it began taking on water in the path of Hurricane Sandy, WITN-TV reported.
The 17 had donned life jackets and survival suits and abandoned the HMS Bounty after sending out a distress signal.
The HMS Bounty's Facebook page said 14 of the 17 had been rescued by 8 a.m. ET.
The Coast Guard sent a C-130 and two rescue helicopters, HH60s, to rescue the crew, WITN-TV reported. The Washington, N.C., TV station said one helicopter began bringing back the first batch of survivors around 7 a.m. ET
The 180-foot ship was without propulsion and had taken on water, the Coast Guard said, according to the Associated Press.
The ship was trapped in 40 mph winds and 18-foot seas about 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., and 160 miles west of the eye of the hurricane, according to a Coast Guard statement..
The Coast Guard first received a call Sunday evening from the ship's owner who said she had lost communication with the crew.
The Coast Guard's 5th District command center in Portsmouth, Va., later picked up a signal from the ship's emergency radio beacon that confirmed it was in distress and gave its position.
The CBC quoted Claudia McCann, wife of the ship's captain, Robin Walbridge, as saying he was trying to get around Hurricane Sandy en route to Florida.
"He was just trying to avoid it, skirt it. Skirt through it, skirt around it," McCann told the CBC. "I'm sure he's devastated. Absolutely devastated. But the crew comes first and you have to save the crew."
The ship, which is used as a sea school, is a replica of one made famous in the film Mutiny on the Bounty and was featured in that movie, the AP reported.
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