A man who fell off a tanker 10 miles off the shore of Galveston had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard last week.
The Coast Guard said they received a distress call shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday from the tanker vessel Ghibli. Crew members reported that a man fell overboard and he was not wearing a life jacket.
A news release states an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston and a 45-foot response boat from Coast Guard Station Galveston responded to the ship. There, the Coast Guard located the man in the water and deployed a rescue swimmer to retrieve him. A video shows the man being pulled from the water.In the release, Travis Addison, the operations unit controller at Sector Houston-Galveston, said life jackets are “absolutely crucial.”
“It was fortunate that our helicopter crew was flying nearby. If not, this case might have ended differently.”
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