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Ketchikan - Two stranded women
and their dogs are safe today after Coast Guard rescuers stumbled
upon them Wednesday afternoon in Southeast Alaska.
While training aboard Station
Ketchikan's 25 and 47-foot rescue boats, the crews noticed two
women waving their arms for help on Black Sands Beach, Gravina
Island at 2:16 p.m.
The boat crews responded and
picked up Angie Taggart of Ketchikan, Rose Marie Larson and their
dogs.
"They anchored their boat
but not compensated for the ebbing tide", said one rescuer,
Petty Officer Shawn Crabtree. "Three boat crewmen
tried to push the 18-foot vessel back into the water but couldn't."
According to Crabtree, he and
the other Station Ketchikan crewmembers transported Taggart,
Larsen and their dogs to Ketchikan after resetting the boat's
anchor in deeper water.
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Coast Guard Petty Officer Dale
Pope rides aboard one of Station Ketchikan's rescue boats Wednesday
with Angie Taggart, Rose Marie Larsen and their dogs after the
station's crews rescued the women and dogs from Black Sands Beach
on Gravina Island.
Official U.S. Coast
Guard photo
by Petty Officer Shawn Crabtree, Station Ketchikan
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