Coast Guard crews around the country responded to mariners in distress in cases that involved boat-to-boat and boat-to-breakwater collisions, man overboard and a cantankerous boater who resented a boarding.
Coast Guard crews responded to a two-vessel collision Sunday in the State Boat Channel in Lindquist, N.Y.
Various marine crews responded to the recreational boating collision involving a 21-foot Wellcraft with two people aboard and a 20-foot Mako with two people aboard.
The good Samaritan on scene transferred two people onto their boat from the sinking vessel.
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An early morning boat crash Friday required the aid of the Coast Guard, the Marine Patrol and TowBoat U.S. to pull the 25-foot StarCraft off of a breakwall on Harmon’s Beach in Lorain, Ohio.
The two people on the boat were safely gathered by the Coast Guard and treated for minor injuries.
The crash occurred around 2 a.m., but the Coast Guard did not received a call about the boat until 6 a.m. and responded immediately.
“The delay in our response was due to never receiving a call,” said Lorain Coast Guard Chief Andrew Coppa. “They had a marine radio and cell phones, but were too afraid to call for help.”
In another Great Lakes incident, the Coast Guard rescued a man who fell off a sailing vessel in Lake Erie on Friday afternoon.
At 3:05 p.m., a watchstander at Coast Guard Station Ashtabula, Ohio, was contacted by a 911 operator who had received a report of a man falling off a sailing vessel in Lake Erie near Conneaut Harbor. The reporting source was another person from the vessel who stated the man was wearing a life jacket when he fell but could not locate him in the water.
On the West Coast, the Coast Guard detained a boater after an altercation erupted during a routine boarding near San Francisco Bay on Sunday.
A boarding team from Coast Guard Station Golden Gate was on a law enforcement patrol Sunday night when they approached a 45-foot sailing vessel moored just off Sausalito. After the master of the vessel refused the request to be boarded, he cut his mooring line and attempted to leave the Bay.
