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[Morgan Crewed]

What was the weather forecast at the time of departure? And the fuel tanks were empty??
From the link above:
"The Coast Guard is reporting that the Atrevida II was found to be de-masted, without fuel and power, rendering its radios and navigation equipment inoperable."

 

[Talchotali]

What was the weather forecast at the time of departure? And the fuel tanks were empty??
From the link above:
"The Coast Guard is reporting that the Atrevida II was found to be de-masted, without fuel and power, rendering its radios and navigation equipment inoperable."

I got my information from the Atlantic USCG Press Office. Update 2 (link earlier in thread) is the last PR listed. I stand corrected if de-masted, but I can't find the source the Maritime Executive is quoting.

Update 2: Coast Guard and maritime partners locate overdue sailing vessel Atrevida II​

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 12/13/2022 05:31 PM EST​

News Release​

​ ​ U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area Contact: Coast Guard Atlantic Area Public Affairs Office: 757-398-6608 After Hours: 757-374-7991 Atlantic Area online newsroom​

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Update 2: Coast Guard and maritime partners locate overdue sailing vessel Atrevida II​

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The U.S. Coast Guard, with assistance from the tanker vessel Silver Muna, located the sailing vessel Atrevida II, approximately 214 miles east of Delaware.​

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Found were Kevin Hyde, a 65-year-old male, and Joe Ditomasso, a 76-year-old male. They were last in contact with family and friends on Dec. 3, 2022, when they departed Oregon Inlet, North Carolina. Hyde and Ditomasso were traveling aboard Atrevida II from Cape May, New Jersey to Marathon, Florida. ​

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The Atrevida II was found to be without fuel and power, rendering their radios and navigation equipment inoperable. Hyde and Ditomasso gained the attention of the Silver Muna crew by waiving their arms and a flag.​

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Hyde, Ditomasso, and a pet dog were brought aboard Silver Muna at 4:18 p.m. They were evaluated by the vessel’s medical staff with no immediate concerns. Hyde and Ditomasso will remain aboard Silver Muna as it proceeds to its next port of call in New York, New York where they will be transferred to a Coast Guard vessel for further evaluation and reunification with their family and friends.​

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On Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022, watchstanders at the Coast Guard Fifth District command center were notified of Hyde and Ditomasso being overdue. The Coast Guard began urgent marine information broadcasts and direct communication with commercial vessels in the area in an attempt to locate them. The Coast Guard launched multiple aircraft and cutters to search for the Atrevida II. Additionally, vessels from the U.S. Navy’s Second Fleet and commercial and recreational vessel traffic within in the search area contributed to the effort.​

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Coast Guard, Navy, and maritime partners searched a combined 21,164 square miles of water, spanning from northern Florida to the waters east of New Jersey. ​

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“This is an excellent example of the maritime community’s combined efforts to ensure safety of life at sea,” said Cmdr. Daniel Schrader, spokesperson for Coast Guard Atlantic Area. “We are overjoyed with the outcome of the case and look forward to reuniting Mr. Hyde and Mr. Ditomasso with their family and friends. We also want to highlight the importance of proper safety equipment and preparedness when going to sea. Having an emergency position indicating radio beacon, or ‘EPIRB’, allows mariners to immediately make contact with first responders in an emergency.”​

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Search and Rescue assets involved in this effort included:​

• Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City HC-130 Hercules airplane and MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews
• A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater HC-130 Hercules airplane crew
• A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew
• A Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew
• USCGC Oak (WLB 211), homeported in Newport, Rhode Island
• USCGC Richard Snyder (WPC 1121), homeported in Atlantic City, North Carolina
• USS San Jacinto (CG 56), homeported in Norfolk, Virginia
• Multiple commercial and recreational vessels along the U.S. eastern seaboard

For more information about this search and rescue effort, contact Coast Guard Atlantic Area public affairs at (757) 374-7991​

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For more, follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.​

 

[jesposito]

Well, Darwin almost got to thin out the herd some.
Maybe next time

 

[Talchotali]

Well apparently de-masted, so I stand corrected.

It sounds like a general lack of preparedness was the general theme of the voyage.

Interview/Perp walk video (Actually entertaining - 'Jersey guys go to sea'):



From the Nations' Newspaper:

Two men and a sailboat vanished into open ocean. 10 days later, a miracle arrived​

Chris Kenning
USA TODAY

His voice was broken up by a bad connection. But on Dec. 3, Joe DiTomasso left a message with his daughter: The sailboat journey to the Florida Keys was going well.
Then the 76-year-old, a former auto mechanic from New Jersey, stopped responding.

For the next 10 frantic days, fears grew as the silence continued. The Coast Guard launched a massive search of 21,000 square miles of ocean for DiTomasso and his friend, Kevin Hyde, 65.

The two men and a dog named Minnie had left New Jersey on Thanksgiving weekend on a 30-foot sailboat bound for Marathon, Florida, but hadn't been heard from since reaching the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
“We were mentally preparing for the worst,” Nina DiTomasso, 37, told USA TODAY.
That was until Tuesday, when a tanker ship spotted a sailboat, apparently adrift, more than 200 miles off the coast of Delaware. On deck, men waved their arms, and a flag. The tanker came alongside and plucked them to safety.

“We all just started screaming when we heard the news, crying and cheering, because it was just so unbelievable,” Nina DiTomasso said.

By Wednesday evening, they were back near the New Jersey shore again, motoring into New York Harbor, this time aboard a 600-foot ship.

When the tanker picked them up, Nina DiTomasso said, the men were 'just super drained." Exhausted, barely able to talk, the men had left much unknown about their journey and the fate of their boat. Only one thing was for sure: They were home.

Destined for warmer weather​

DiTomasso’s family said the pair were boating friends and were seeking warmer weather for the winter.

DiTomasso was an experienced boater, his daughter said, who had long worked as an auto mechanic but would often steal away to go saltwater fishing. His experiences were primarily on power boats, she said.

“He was at the shore every second he got,” she said. “He just loved fishing.”

More recently, he lived on a boat in a Cape May marina for part of the year, where some nicknamed him “Joey Tomatoes,” said David Reistad, 38, DiTomasso’s son-in-law.

As the family gathered for Thanksgiving, DiTomasso was excited to join a friend he knew from the marina for a new journey.

They would take the friend's sailboat from Cape May and head south to Marathon, in the Florida Keys.

DiTomasso had done the trip before, though not in a sailboat.

“My Dad actually did this once before, but with a different set of friends on their boat. And he had a great experience,” Nina DiTomasso said. “He was extremely excited.”

Hyde's family could not be immediately reached.

While DiTomasso's daughter was confident in her father's boating ability, she knew less about his route. The two were planning to go “go from port to port,” DiTomasso's daughter said, but she didn’t know if each leg would track outside the coast in open water, or along the Intracoastal Waterway, which runs inland down the Atlantic seaboard.

They left on Nov. 27. Nina DiTomasso knew he would have cell service, and would call to keep his family updated.

The vessel was a Catalina 30 sailboat, a popular coastal-cruising design from one of the largest sailboat manufacturers. A typical model would sport a single mast with a two-sail sloop rig, and a small diesel engine. Without major modifications, it would have tanks for enough fresh water to last two people a few days.

But unlike a typical white fiberglass boat, this hull was a brilliant navy blue. The name "Atrevida II" graced its transom. The word, in Spanish, has several meanings. One of them is "daring."

Into the open sea​

Her father began by calling family or friends with regular updates.

Nina DiTomasso was at home outside Philadelphia while her dad was on his trip. She said the crew was last heard from after leaving Oregon Inlet, on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

That meant the crew had already left behind New Jersey and crossed the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.

Ahead of them lay the coastal South and the blue waters of Florida. But before that was the Outer Banks, the stretch of barrier islands where waves and ocean currents roil up over shallow waters. Its shifting shoals long ago earned it the nickname "Graveyard of the Atlantic."

A friend of the men said he'd been talking to DiTomasso when his phone died. At first, no one panicked. He often forgot to charge his phone.

Another friend asked around the marina and found that Kevin’s phone was apparently dead, too.

“So my Mom looked at my Dad's credit card statement, and he didn't make any new purchases” since Dec. 3, she said. “That's when we really grew concerned.”

Days passed with no word, then more days. On Dec. 11, the Coast Guard was notified that the two sailors were overdue and subsequently launched a search that would stretch from Florida to New Jersey, the agency said.

Coast Guard cutters and aircraft participated in the search along with ships from the U.S. Navy and commercial and recreational vessels.

“They just worked tirelessly, day and night. They sent out planes to search, a helicopter and they put it on social media,” Nina DiTomasso said.

She said Coast Guard officials said that the boat had previously reported problems with a generator and had run aground but had then set sail once again.

But with no cell service, DiTomasso's family had no idea where to find Atrevida II. They had no idea how much food or water the men had on board.

Nina DiTomasso told one television news station, "My friends and everyone was saying, 'If anyone is going to survive this, it's ‘Joey Tomatoes.'"

Reistad said he worried from reading online that if the boat had become disabled, it could have been pushed by currents along the Outer Banks and ultimately pulled along by the Gulf Stream.

That ocean river is a powerful current of water that flows north along the Atlantic Coast. Somewhere offshore – perhaps a few miles off, perhaps as far as 75 miles – a boat would reach the edge of the stream.

“They probably ended up drifting into the Gulf Stream” and “couldn't do anything about it but just be pulled up north,” Reistad said. “The temperatures the other day up here in the north were 20-something degrees."

Once entering the Gulf Stream, a disabled boat would be sucked inexorably northward, and farther and farther offshore, bound for the icy waters of the north Atlantic.

Spotted from a ship​

On Tuesday, more than two weeks after the men's journey began, nobody had heard from Atrevida II.

Then someone aboard the tanker Silver Muna, itself in the midst of an Atlantic crossing carrying fuel from Amsterdam, noticed a sight in the open ocean.

Aboard a small sailboat, two men waved their arms, and a flag. The hull of their boat was a brilliant navy blue.

Photos posted online by the Coast Guard reveal a bit about the state of Atrevida II. In them the boat has no mast, meaning its sailing rig had been toppled. Some of the cable lifelines that ring the edge of the deck for safety, and other deck hardware, all appear to be smashed.

Relatives said they later learned that the boat had no fuel and no power. Its radios and navigation equipment were inoperable after a storm near Hatteras blew them off course.

After drifting, the men spent two days without water, cutting lines to pull out the last drops, they said later.

"They’re in the middle of the ocean with no power, no anything," Reistad said. "It's just unbelievable.”

The men and a dog were brought aboard the tanker shortly after 4 p.m. An evaluation by the ship’s medical staff revealed no immediate concerns, the Coast Guard said.

“This is an excellent example of the maritime community’s combined efforts to ensure safety of life at sea,” Daniel Schrader, a Coast Guard spokesman said in a statement.

Schrader also stressed the importance of sailors traveling with what’s commonly known as an “EPIRB” or Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. It allows people on a boat to deliver their position to first responders in an emergency.

By Wednesday evening, the ship had arrived in New York to be reunited with family. Nina DiTamasso drove from her home in Pennsylvania to meet him.

DiTomasso said they experienced high winds and mountainous waves. He said the boat lost power, rigging and steering.

“I never saw wind so strong — roaring,” he told Coast Guard officials during a video showing the men being taken from the tanker to shore.

Hyde praised the crew of the Silver Muna for spotting them given "the size of his ship and the size of the ocean, compared to this toothpick I'm floating around in," according to ABC7.

During their ordeal, DiTomasso said that he wasn't sure he'd see his family again, explaining what helped him pull through: "My granddaughter. And the cross of Jesus. Every morning I'd wake up and kiss it and say the Our Father," he said.

Coast Guard photos posted on Facebook showed the men being welcomed in New York on Wednesday night, the dog in tow.

Nina DiTomasso said she planned to “just hug him” and then stay in New York with their father. The journey that started on Thanksgiving weekend had not gone as planned. Instead, she said, it ended with a "Christmas miracle."

Contributing: The Associated Press

Chris Kenning is a national reporter. Reach him on Twitter @chris_kenning.

 

[nolatom]

This is a feel-good Christmas story if there ever was one. Needle in a haystack found, and Joy to all-- ("Joy" in Coast Guard RCC and search missions, means they've found, or another vessel has found, the craft that's missing, and those rescued are "souls").

Merry Christmas, and joy to all souls!!

 

[Talchotali]

Here's an odd one:

Coast Guard rescues woman, 2 children from disabled sailboat nearly 100 miles off Anclote Island...captain stays on board.

Video:

Coast Guard: Woman, 2 children rescued from disabled boat in Florida

A woman and two children were rescued by Coast Guard Sunday.

www.wesh.com

Coast Guard rescues woman, 2 children from disabled sailboat nearly 100 miles off Anclote Island

A Sunday out on the sailboat did not turn out as planned for a family who needed to be rescued when the vessel became disabled 96 miles offshore of Anclote Island.

www.fox13news.com

Coast Guard rescues woman, 2 children from disabled sailboat nearly 100 miles off Anclote Island​

By FOX 13 News Staff​

Published December 18, 2022 6:12PM​

Pasco County​

Courtesy FOX 13 News​

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Coast Guard rescues woman, 2 children from disabled sailboat​

A woman and two kids were flown back to shore by the Coast Guard after the sailboat they were on became disabled 96 miles offshore.​

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ANCLOTE KEY, Fla. - A Sunday out on the sailboat did not turn out as planned for a family who needed to be rescued when the vessel became disabled 96 miles offshore of Anclote Island.​

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According to the United States Coast Guard, the owner of the sailboat called for help when the boat got stuck and the weather conditions took a turn for the worse.​

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A passenger on the boat wanted to be rescued along with her 12-year-old and 3-year-old children.​

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A Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter aircrew hoisted the woman and two children off the boat and took them to the air station where family members were waiting.​

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A three-year-old child is flown back to land after a sailboat they were riding on became disabled nearly 100 miles off shore.​

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"This successful rescue was made possible by the quick response and effective communication between our rescue crews and the vessel's master. It is essential for all mariners to have and use a VHF-FM radio in case of an emergency," said Petty Officer 3rd Class Claudia Kearn, Sector St. Petersburg command center watchstander. "This allows rescue crews to establish a clear and direct line of communication, which can be critical in a crisis situation. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with your vessel's safety equipment and procedures, and always be vigilant about your own safety and the safety of those around you. ​

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The person who owned the sailboat stayed with it and plans to sail back to shore once the weather improves. ​

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There were no reported injuries​

 

[Tax Man]

Double Dipping to Save Canines​

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Coast Guard rescues boater, dogs from grounded sailboat​

Petty Officer 3rd Class Austen Marshall, an avionics electrical technician and a flight mechanic at Coast Guard Air Station Port Angeles, sits near a dog his aircrew rescued from a grounded sailingboat near Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Dec. 28. The aircrew rescued one person and two dogs from the vessel.
U.S. COAST GUARD PHOTO

Thanks for the assist but this was 30 miles from a Canadian Coast Guard station and naval base.
Anyone know why Canada can't do SAR in its own back yard?

 

[sAiLiNg AnArChY]

Lost the toss?

Last pic makes more sense this way:

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

My understanding is they both closely coordinate and make asset calls based on available resources at the moment. And, every opportunity is good training.

I'm told that for anything in the region, the two Coast Guards work seamlessly. The Canadian side, through Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Victoria which manages their regional land, sea and air assets. On the US side, it is more fragmented, but all SAR through the USCG. And if they are busy, the Navy helo folks from Whidbey Island NAS are standing by.

Here is a recent the story of a Forks, Washington woman flown to Victoria (Canada) for medical treatment, when Seattle was snowed in, that illustrates this seamless coordination:

U.S. woman airlifted to Victoria hospital amid snowstorm​

A U.S.Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Port Angeles is seen in this undated file photo. (Twitter: USCGPacificNW)​

By Adam Chan

• A U.S. woman was brought to Victoria General Hospital for treatment on Tuesday evening due to poor weather in Washington state.

The U.S. Coast Guard was contacted by a hospital in Forks, WA, around 8 p.m. saying that a woman in care was in critical condition and needed to be transferred to a different hospital for a higher level of care.​

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The coast guard prepared a rescue helicopter to airlift the 42-year-old woman to another hospital.​

However, since a winter storm was dumping snow in the Seattle area, the coast guard team was told to take the woman to a hospital north of the border.​

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"The Coast Guard watchstanders coordinated with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre Victoria, Canada Patient Transfer Network, Victoria General Hospital and the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center to arrange the transfer," said the U.S. Coast Guard in a release Wednesday.​

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The woman was driven from Forks to a coast guard station in Port Angeles, WA, by ambulance before being flown to Victoria General Hospital alongside paramedics in a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter.​

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She arrived at VGH around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday morning. ​

Attached is a slide deck of some of the unique challenges faced by the USCG because of the local geography of Washington's Puget Sound, Vancouver Island and the Inland Passage.

http://www.pccharbormasters.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Ferguson_PCC_Final.pdf

 

[Keith]

 

[Talchotali]

Great video - Thanks for finding that.

World's calmest dog...

"Oh yeah I get lifted by strange humans wearing funny suits 200 feet in an open basket into a noisy infernal machine all the time. Do you have any dog treats? .

 

[eric1207]

Tal, that gave me a good laugh this morning. Thank you. Says the dog: "The ship wreck and strange-person-helo-hoist was ok but what really gets me excited are doggy treats."

When I viewed that video, yours was the same though I had; what a mellow dog! I'm not a dog person so handling strange ones is something I would not be fond of. Dogs of friends seem ok with me but I've always been careful around any of them, I had a couple of canine incidents as a kid.

 

[Talchotali]

An article in Maritime Executive explains the arrangement succinctly:

"...The rescues were carried out in coordination with the Canadian Coast Guard. The two agencies have a cooperative agreement for VTS management and emergency response for the busy waterway, including trans-border operations..."

Video: U.S. Coast Guard Crosses Border to Save a Sailor and His Dogs

On Wednesday, a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter aircrew crossed the Canadian border to rescue a grounded sailor and two canine passengers. On Tuesday nigh...

maritime-executive.com

I just can't get over how calm that dog was.

 

[Talchotali]

Coast Guard shares details surrounding ‘heavy weather’ rescue off N.C. coast​

Courtesy WECT

The U.S. Coast Guard has shared the details surrounding the rescue of an individual from a sinking sailing vessel off the N.C. coast on Jan. 23.(PA1 TELFAIR BROWN | U.S. Coast Guard)

By WECT Staff
Published: Jan. 24, 2023 at 7:48 AM PST

BALD HEAD ISLAND, N.C. (WECT) - The U.S. Coast Guard has shared details surrounding the rescue of an individual from a sinking sailing vessel off the N.C. coast on Jan. 23.

According to the report, the Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay command center received report during the night of Jan. 22 of a 73-year-old man needing assistance aboard the 33-foot vessel “Freyja.” Due to weather conditions in the area, Freyja was taking on water approximately 155 miles east of the Cape Fear headland of Bald Head Island.

A MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew, along with an HC-130 Hercules crew, departed Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City and successfully hoisted the individual from the sinking vessel. The survivor was transported to Wilmington, and there were no reported injuries.

Name and length match?:

Also:

Impressive video from Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet

U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet​

January 21 at 10:57 AM ·


On 14JAN23, CG STA Oregon Inlet responded to a report of S/V SECOND WIND seeking safe haven to weather the weekend storm. Because the Oregon Inlet Bar was breaking with 6-8’ surf, both Motor Lifeboats got underway to escort S/V SECOND WIND across the bar. Ultimately, S/V SECOND WIND was able to anchor at Slaughter Point and wait out the storm before continuing on her voyage.

All mariners are reminded to keep close tabs on current and future weather forecasts and to plan their voyages accordingly.

**You’ll notice the tactic used by our coxswain was to stay behind the vessel in need, taking the bulk of the waves’ force on the lifeboat to ensure a safe inbound run for the other vessel.**



If that link is blocked by your browser, try this and search on "Second Wind":

U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet

U.S. Coast Guard Station Oregon Inlet, Nags Head, North Carolina. 2,646 likes · 227 talking about this · 19 were here. Coast Guard Comment Policy We welcome your comments on postings at all Coast...

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[floater]

I'm not really sure where Slaughter Point is. but pretty sure it's not near this Oregon inlet:

 

[Talchotali]

When I wrote the above I was curious as to how a place name "Oregon" could get to the other coast, where everything else near by was likely named in the 1700's

Here's the story from Wikipedia:

Oregon Inlet was formed when a hurricane lashed the Outer Banks in 1846, separating Bodie Island from Pea Island. One ship that rode out that storm in Pamlico Sound was named the Oregon. After the storm the crew members of this ship were the first to tell those on the mainland about the inlet's formation. Hence, it has been known as Oregon Inlet ever since.​

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Akin to many other inlets along the Outer Banks, Oregon Inlet moves southward due to drifting sands during tides and storms. It has moved south over two miles since 1846, averaging around 66 feet per year.​

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Coast Guard station​

Oregon Inlet Coast Guard Station, built for
$3.5 million in 1990, as it looked in 2009.

The Coast Guard station at Oregon Inlet is currently located at its fourth site since it began as a lifesaving station in 1883. It was one of 29 lifesaving stations Congress approved and appropriated funds for a decade earlier. By 1888, the Oregon Inlet Station had to be relocated to a new site. It is assumed that this relocation was necessary because of the shifting of the channel to the south and the encroachment of the ocean from the east. The station was decommissioned and moved to a new safer location some 400 feet westward toward the sound.​

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Less than a decade later a storm totally destroyed the Oregon Inlet Station. By 1897, a new station was under construction and was completed in 1898 for less than $7,000. As part of a modernization program in 1933-34, the Oregon Inlet Station was extensively modified to look very much like it does today. In 1979, a new extension was added. By 1988, the station was completely abandoned when the southward migration of the Oregon Inlet threatened to swallow it.​

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So just down from Kitty Hawk, Nags Head [and just south of Bodie Island on the snippet above].​

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So where does the name Oregon itself come from? Luckily again, Wikepedia is here to provide too much information:​

Etymology of Oregon​

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The origin of the state's name is a mystery. The earliest evidence of the name Oregon has Spanish origins. The term "orejón" (meaning "big ear") comes from the historical chronicle Relación de la Alta y Baja California (1598),[13] written by Rodrigo Montezuma of New Spain; it made reference to the Columbia River when the Spanish explorers penetrated into the North American territory that became part of the Viceroyalty of New Spain. This chronicle is the first topographical and linguistic source with respect to the place name Oregon. Another possible source is the Spanish word oregano, which refers to a plant that grows in the southern part of the region. It is also possible that the American territory was named by the Spaniards, as there is a stream in Spain called the "Arroyo del Oregón" (which is located in the province of Ciudad Real), or that the "j" in the Spanish phrase "El Orejón" was later corrupted into a "g".[14]​

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Another early use of the name, spelled Ouragon, was by Major Robert Rogers in a 1765 petition to the Kingdom of Great Britain. The term referred to the then-mythical River of the West (the Columbia River). By 1778, the spelling had shifted to Oregon.[15] Rogers wrote:​

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... from the Great Lakes towards the Head of the Mississippi, and from thence to the River called by the Indians Ouragon.​

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One theory is that the name comes from the French word ouragan ("windstorm" or "hurricane"), which was applied to the River of the West based on Native American tales of powerful Chinook winds on the lower Columbia River, or perhaps from first-hand French experience with the Chinook winds of the Great Plains. At the time, the River of the West was thought to rise in western Minnesota and flow west through the Great Plains.​

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Joaquin Miller wrote in Sunset magazine in 1904:​

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"...The name, Oregon, is rounded down phonetically, from Ouve água—Oragua, Or-a-gon, Oregon—given probably by the same Portuguese navigator that named the Farallones after his first officer, and it literally, in a large way, means cascades: "Hear the waters." You should steam up the Columbia and hear and feel the waters falling out of the clouds of Mount Hood to understand entirely the full meaning of the name Ouve a água, Oregon..."​

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Another account, endorsed as the "most plausible explanation" in the book Oregon Geographic Names, was advanced by George R. Stewart in a 1944 article in American Speech. According to Stewart, the name came from an engraver's error in a French map published in the early 18th century, on which the Ouisiconsink (Wisconsin) River was spelled "Ouaricon-sint", broken on two lines with the -sint below, so there appeared to be a river flowing to the west named "Ouaricon".​

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According to the Oregon Tourism Commission, present-day Oregonians /ˌɒrɪˈɡoʊniənz/ pronounce the state's name as "or-uh-gun, never or-ee-gone". After being drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2002, former Oregon Ducks quarterback Joey Harrington distributed "Orygun" stickers to members of the media as a reminder of how to pronounce the name of his home state.[21][22] The stickers are sold by the University of Oregon Bookstore.​

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I couldn't find Slaughter Point on a chart, so perhaps someone with local knowledge of Nags Head/Cape Hatteras can chime in.

Anyway, two Oregons, two formidable pieces of water crossing bars and two renowned Coast Guard Life Saving Stations, each on separate coasts.

And speaking of bars, we have an east coaster as a regular at our bar, and if we catch him saying "or-ee-gone" he has to buy the drinks.

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[Talchotali]

Speaking of the bar on the other coast's well-known Oregon inlet, some pretty dramatic footage today from a CG trainee swimmer's very first in-water rescue at the Columbia River Bar during a high wind event.

After drying off, the trainee swimmer graduated from his Coast Guard training program (with a story to tell) later that day.

Good Job Coast Guard!



Courtesy KIRO TV:

Coast Guard trainee in first-ever rescue saves man trapped in capsized boat in Columbia River​

By KIRO 7 News StaffFebruary 03, 2023 at 2:45 pm PST

(AET1 Kyle Turcotte)

A Coast Guard trainee saved a man as his boat capsized under a huge wave in the Columbia River Friday, according to the United States Coast Guard’s Pacific Northwest’s Twitter.

While conducting a training mission at the mouth of the Columbia River, two Coast Guard aircrews received a mayday broadcast from the master of a P/C Sandpiper boat.

Watchstanders at the Columbia River Sector were notified. They launched motor lifeboats and aircrew from station Cape Disappointment. When arrived, they found the boat floundering in the surf.

The surf made it too dangerous to rescue the man by boat, so they decided to lower the trainee into the water.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, this was the trainee’s first rescue.

As the trainee was swimming to save the man, the man’s boat capsized under a huge wave, rolling multiple times, as seen in a video on the USCG’s PNW Twitter.

The trainee was still able to recover the man, who was flown back to the Coast Guard Base in Astoria and treated for injuries.

Hours after his first save, the trainee traded out his wet suit for a cap and gown and is set to graduate later today.

Training on a much, much calmer day:

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

boater and rescuer both ok

 

[Tacoma Mud Flats]

The other thread finds the rescued has a secret (and a rap sheet)

USCG rescue off Cape Disappointment, Washington - large breaking sea

Well, that explains why the fenders were out. https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2023/02/giant-wave-rolls-yacht-off-astoria-rookie-coast-guard-rescue-swimmer-saves-man.html

forums.sailinganarchy.com

 

[floater]

that rescue was off the handle. holy shit - they got worked big time. the boat for sure is not okay.