Update: Coast Guard assists disabled vessel

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News Release  

July 05, 2017
U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland
Contact: 8th District Public Affairs
Office: (504) 671-2020
After Hours: (618) 225-9008

Update: Coast Guard assists disabled vessel

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard has concluded its monitoring of a disabled vessel approximately 17 miles south of Vermillion Bay, Louisiana, Wednesday.

A good Samaritan boat crew towed the vessel to Freshwater Bayou, Louisiana. 

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report at 8:00 a.m. Tuesday that a fishing vessel had received a radio transmission from someone aboard another vessel stating that his vessel was disabled.

Sector watchstanders diverted an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama, and directed the launch of Coast Guard Cutter Skipjack from Abbeveille, Louisiana, to assist the vessel.

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