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Five Sailors Rescued – Dramatic moment Coast Guard rushes to rescue stranded sailors as boat sinks hundreds of miles off coast
The US Coast Guard dramatically pulled five sailors to safety after their boat went down in choppy waters hundreds of miles off the coast of North Carolina. The five men, who were aboard the sailboat ‘Magic Bus’, issued a mayday call on Thursday after their boat began sinking. The North Carolina Command Center scrambled an immediate response to the group some 260 nautical miles off Cape Hatteras as the sailors abandoned their boat. The cutter Angela McShan (WPC 1135), along with an HC-130 Hercules aircraft and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter were deployed from Air Station Elizabeth City as part of.