Coast Guard Jet Crew Drops Life Raft to Distressed Mariners, Searches for More

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX, UNITED STATES

09.17.2014

Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick 

U.S. Coast Guard District 8 PADET Houston

The crew of a Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon drop a life raft to save two people on a sunken Mexican fishing boat in the Gulf of Mexico off South Padre Island, Texas, Sept. 17, 2014. The Coast Guard Cutter Manta, an 87-foot patrol boat arrives shortly after to rescue them from the raft and the crews begin searching for two additional missing crewmembers from the sunken boat. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 1st Class Andrew Kendrick

• Date Taken: 09.17.2014
• Date Posted: 09.18.2014 07:34
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 361481
• VIRIN: 140917-G-LP265-001
• Filename: DOD_101953007
• Length: 00:04:56
• Location: SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, TX, US