2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-07-31 01:03
The United States Coast Guard posted a video of the dramatic rescue of a mother and her two male children who were shipwrecked off the coast of the island of Vieques in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria.
Black and white scenes showed the desperate family standing on the boat that capsized in the face of the cyclone.
The three people were dressed in life jackets and raised their arms to attract the attention of a helicopter that came to their rescue. The woman was holding an object that looked like a float.
The Defense Department indicated that the ship was adrift in a 20-foot-high storm surge and under pressure from winds of 100 knots.
"On September 20 dispatchers of the Coast Guard received an alert through the radio localization emergency [system] and later a distress call from the [ship] Ferrel indicating that he was incapacitated," said a tweet. from the Southeast Coast Guard.
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