It was a busy weekend for the U.S. Coast Guard as they performed three separate rescues off the Jersey Shore.
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The Coast Guard’s Portsmouth station says it received a report early Sunday from two crewmembers aboard the 31-foot boat.
The 20-foot boat was about 18 miles offshore when it started taking on water at about 9:45 a.m., the Coast Guard said.
Another 45-foot Response Boat from Little Creek joined the search later Sunday morning.
The Coast Guard dispatched a 45-foot response boat from Station Cape Charles and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from North Carolina.
At approximately 11:30 p.m., the Albacore crew handed off the Angel Fish’s tow to the crew aboard the fishing vessel R.M. Chase in Buzzard’s Bay where it was towed to Angel Fish’s homeport in New Bedford.
The main had fallen overboard but then managed to climb back aboard the vessel and await help.
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Crews from the NJ Coast Guard performed several dramatic rescues this past weekend off the coast of South Jersey, pulling two hypothermic fisherman from the frigid waters and saving an overboard boat passenger as well as a cat during another rescue.
