Two boaters escorted to safety after Coast Guard delivers dewatering pump to sinking pleasure vessel

Crews from Station Grays Harbor respond to scene after operator reported taking on water Saturday

The Coast Guard rescued two people and saved a boat from sinking 15 miles north of the entrance to Grays Harbor on Saturday morning, according to a statement from the U.S. Coast Guard 13th District Pacific Northwest.

The Coast Guard station in Warrenton, Ore., received a distress call from an operator of a 22-foot pleasure boat taking on water at 11:15 a.m. Boat crews from the Westport station were the first to arrive. Two crew members delivered a radio and a dewatering pump to the vessel’s two occupants. Once the boat was stabilized, the two Coast Guard boats escorted the pleasure craft back to shore while the pump kept it afloat.

Also dispatched to the scene were an air crew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and the Coast Guard Cutter Sea Lion, an 87-foot patrol boat home ported in Bellingham that was on patrol in the vicinity of the incident. Both were released from the scene after the pleasure craft was underway under the escort of the two Westport boats, a 47-foot motor life boat and a 29-foot response boat.