Posted on 07/14/2014 12:12:35 PM PDT by citizen
A man attempting to sail his 36-foot sailboat through the Northwest Passage was rescued by a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Saturday after his boat became trapped in Arctic sea ice northeast of Barrow.
The Coast Guard cutter Healy broke a 12-mile path through ice to reach the sailboat Altan Girl about 40 miles from Barrow, the Coast Guard said in a news release Sunday. The Healy was diverted from a research mission to respond to the sailboat.
The Coast Guard did not release the rescued mans name, but the Nome Nuggets June 26 Dock Walk column described the Altan Girl as a Canadian-Turkish sailing vessel."
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Vessel captain is unidentified at this point. I’m betting he leans port.
Ben Dover ?
Exactly. I remembered it when Fox News whens nuts back in 2003 and had a 'FOX NEWS ALERT' every other minute. ;C
Ed
FNC is still pretty much nuts if that's the standard. They seem to start every segment with an ALERT.
Talk about the boy crying wolf too much, that is what Fox does with their constant alerts.
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