Office of External Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard

Date: Oct. 12, 2008

Contact:  PA3 Jaclyn Young
(618) 225-9008

Coast Guard rescues stranded windsurfer

PANAMA CITY, Fla. - The Coast Guard rescued a windsurfer who was stranded on a range marker near Courtney Point in St. Andrew's Bay late Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008 near Panama City.

Coast Guard Sector Mobile received a report Saturday evening from a Good Samaritan reporting that they had rescued a windsurfer in the same area and needed Coast Guard assistance to find the another windsurfer who was still in the water. 

Sector Mobile launched an HH-65C rescue helicopter and crew from Air Station New Orleans and a 25-foot rescue smallboat from Station Panama City.  An Urgent Marine Information Broadcast (UMIB) was also issued to mariners as a caution in the area.

The windsurfer was located sitting on a range marker by the smallboat and transported the surfer to shore.

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