Day 7: Six men rescued off capsized vessel - 2009 Video of the Year Nominee

Welcome to the Coast Guard Video of the Year contest. This is the seventhth of 11 videos we will feature between now and Dec. 31, 2009. You can vote for this video by rating it with 1 to 5 stars right here on YouTube. We'll close the voting on January 8, 2010 and announce the winners soon after.

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Video: The rescue of six people from their capsized vessel two miles from the Columbia River, Wash., by a boatcrew from Cape Disappointment, Wash., and an aircrew from Air Station Astoria, Ore.

Transcript:

LTjg Mike Groncki: The afternoon we received the mayday call we launched out to find the overturned vessel with six survivors on top of the hull. We arrived at the scene and the 47 (foot motor life boat) was approximately two to three miles out. We deployed our rescue swimmer and he escorted the survivors to the 47 and all of the survivors were recovered safely.

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News & Politics

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• search and rescue
• #uscgtopvideos
• overturned vessel
• Air Station Astoria
• LTjg Mike Groncki
• Station Cape Disappointment