Good Samaritan Helps Rescue Pleasure Boat

Published: September 16, 2003 | 161st good news item since 2003

The U.S. Coast Guard reports that a good Samaritan Monday helped rescue a pleasure boat that was taking on water about 5 miles north of Santa Cruz near an area known as Whalers Beach.

Lt. Jared King said the Coast Guard received a call about 2 p.m. Monday from a man, whose age and address are unknown, aboard the boat that was taking on water. The boat, called the Orca, is a 26-foot white vessel, and the man who called was the only person aboard.

The Coast Guard responded by sending a helicopter and a 47-foot patrol boat from Monterey.

But the first vessel to come to the help of the sinking boat was the Ever And Ever, a 52-foot boat with a Canadian flag, King said. The Santa Cruz harbormaster then arrived and is now towing the Orca to Santa Cruz. The man aboard the Orca was not injured, King said.

Published in Rescues
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