The US Coast Guard along with a good Samaritan rescued five boaters on Thursday, June 28, after their 30-foot dive boat capsized 22 miles west of Anclote Island. There are no reported injuries.
At 10:05 a.m. (local time), an HC-130 Hercules aircraft crew on a training flight spotted five boaters clinging to debris and deployed a life raft. US Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders issued an Urgent Marine Information Broadcast via VHF-FM radio channel 16. A good Samaritan aboard the charter fishing boat Two Georges from Tarpon Springs, responded to the broadcast and saved the boaters from the water.
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A US Coast Guard Station Sand Key 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew was launched and transported the boaters from the Two Georges to the RB-M who are now heading to Station Sand Key.
No injuries were reported.