Coast Guard crews and a good Samaritan rescued two people 40 miles south of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, July 21, 2017 after their boat sank. At 9:39 a.m., watchstanders at the first Coast Guard District command center received a distress alert from an EPIRB onboard a 35-foot center console boat, 40 miles off of the coast of Sandy Hook. U.S Coast Guard photo by Seaman Dalton Stegent.