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Coast Guard quizzed over rescue lapses

Congress questions why search effort was delayed on one call, while another was deemed a false alarm

Reminded of the loss of the Morning Dew 12 years ago, a congressional panel has asked a Coast Guard admiral whether fumbled rescue responses in two more recent cases mean the agency still is dogged by a shortage of qualified watchstanders.

New SAR tool is getting good grades

A Coast Guard helicopter crew this summer rescued two teens off Houston with the help of its new Rescue 21 communications system and radio direction finder, which gave rescuers a line of bearing to the source of the mayday.

The teens were south of Sabine Pass when their 21-foot skiff started taking on water and sank the morning of Aug. 10. A Coast Guard MH-65C helicopter crew dispatched from Houston quickly located the young men and hoisted them from the water.

Heroism cited in tough Bering Sea rescue

Coast Guard swimmer Abram Heller’s first real operation earned him a medal for saving eight fishermen

Heller was awarded the gold medal of the Association for Rescue at Sea for his actions. Sitting in a life raft filled with frigid water and three hypothermic survivors in the Bering Sea was the type of extreme situation Abram Heller knew was a possibility when he signed on as a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. And that possibility was the reality of his first rescue mission.

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Auxiliarists, crew of Greek ship also honored

Coast Guard rescue swimmer Abram Heller wasn’t the only man honored by the Association for Rescue at Sea at its awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

The organization also paid tribute to Coast Guard Auxiliarists R. Jeffrey Brooks, Edward W. Parish, William M. Shepard, Robert O. Wells and William E. Winfrey. The five were awarded the AFRAS silver medal for saving two swimmers in Florida.

The latest thing: land-for-boat swaps

Brokers say bartering is a good answer to the swoons in both the marine and real estate markets

Michel Servant - with 13-year-old son Lucas - is willing to swap his buffalo ranch in Canada for a Nordhavn trawler or other bluewater passagemaker. Sluggish sales have spurred an uptick in bartering — real estate for boats. Michel Servant, a Montreal real estate developer, is looking to trade his 700-acre hobby ranch and 150 head of buffalo in New Brunswick, Canada, for a $1.5 million to $2 million expedition trawler. “Money is scarce,” says Servant, 52. “People want to hold on to it.”

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