Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 5 | 01.14.2014
A crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., lands aboard the USS Ross, a 505-foot guided missle destroyer, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. The Jayhawk was responding to a disabled sailboat with four people aboard 300 miles east of Cape Henry, Va., and needed the Navy platform to refuel before and after they hoisted the people from the sailboat into the......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 5 | 01.14.2014
A crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C., lands aboard the USS Ross, a 505-foot guided missle destroyer, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. The Jayhawk was responding to a disabled sailboat with four people aboard 300 miles east of Cape Henry, Va., and needed the Navy platform to refuel before and after they hoisted the people from the sailboat into the......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 5 | 02.18.2013
A Towboat U.S. boatcrew relieves the Coast Guard Cutter Block Island, a 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C., from towing a 43-foot sailboat, Feb. 18, 2013. The Block Island and crew towed the sailboat from 17 miles off Oregon Inlet, N.C., to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel near Virginia Beach, Va., after the boat lost its rigging from severe weather. (U.S. Coast Guard......
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 5 | 02.17.2013
The crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Block Island, a 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C., pulls alongside a sailboat that lost its rigging in severe weather and became adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 17, 2013. The Block Island's crew towed the sailboat to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel where Towboat U.S. took over the tow. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Donald Flusche)...
Courtesy Photo | U.S. Coast Guard District 5 | 02.17.2013
Crewmembers aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Block Island, a 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Atlantic Beach, N.C., prepare lines on the aft deck in preparations for towing a disabled 43-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 17, 2013. The Block Island's crew towed the sailboat to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel where Towboat U.S. took over the tow. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Donald......