Around 1:30 p.m., the German container ship Houston Express contacted Coast Guard watchstanders in Portsmouth, saying they had taken aboard a man from a disabled sailboat 200 miles off the coast.
A Coast Guard helicopter crew left Elizabeth City around 3:40 p.m., met the Houston Express and hoisted the man onto the MH-60 Jayhawk.
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3 comments:
Unbelievable that this could have happened where it happened.Not one plane or satellite detected a boat that large in that length of time? In the Atlantic no less with cruise ships routinely passing nearby.There is nothing normal about this.
Most shipping follows direct routes from location to location and there are vast areas of the oceans where no ships pass for years.
shared...What a great story before EASTER....
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