Coast Guard rescues 4 stranded boaters off island near Cape
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four people who became stranded on Nonamesset Island Wednesday morning.
An employee for a commercial towing company alerted the Coast Guard to the stranded boaters at around 10:40 a.m., the Coast Guard said in a statement. Their boat had run aground in the shallow waters surrounding Nonamesset, the easternmost of the Elizabeth Islands.
The first boat the Coast Guard sent could not reach them, the statement said. So they dispatched a smaller, shallow draft boat to pick up the group from a nearby cove. No one was injured.
“It definitely was not the calmest day,” said Coast Guard crew member and Petty Officer 2nd Class Douglas Mead. “We had a decent chop and strong current, which made getting in close difficult.”
The boat that originally got stuck was later dislodged and towed back to Falmouth.
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