The Coast Guard rescued four people Thursday night from a fishing boat after a collision between two fishing boats occurred approximately 10 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island. At approximately 8:30
The Coast Guard rescued four people Thursday night from a fishing boat after a collision between two fishing boats occurred approximately 10 miles south of Block Island, Rhode Island.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound received a distress call via VHF-FM channel 16 of two fishing boats colliding.
Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and dispatched crews aboard a Coast Guard Station Montauk 47-foot motor lifeboat (MLB) and a Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to assist.
The 87-foot scalloper, Vanquish, reported six people aboard, no damage and no injuries. Meanwhile, the 55-foot trawler, Mattie and Maren II, reported four people aboard, flooding in the engine room and that they were unable to keep up with dewatering efforts. It was reported all crew members aboard Mattie and Maren II donned survival suits and prepared an EPIRB and life raft in case abandoning ship became necessary.
Station Montauk’s MLB crew arrived on scene at approximately 9:15 p.m. A crewmember from Station Montauk embarked the fishing vessel Mattie and Maren II with a P-6 dewatering pump to attempt and assist in dewatering efforts, but was unsuccessful
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