Coast Guard rescues 3 stranded fishermen off Nantucket coast

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The fishermen had been rescued by Coast Guard helicopter on Saturday.

On this picture taken from U.S. Coast Guard video, one among three fishermen is rescued from ocean waters by the Coast Guard 5 miles east of Nantucket Saturday, Aug. 5, 2023. U.S Coast Guard through AP

Three stranded fishermen off the coast of Nantucket had been rescued on Saturday, in response to the U.S. Coast Guard.

Members of the Coast Guard from the Brant Level Station on Nantucket and Air Station Cape Cod responded to an emergency radio beacon at 12:48 pm, in response to The Related Press.

By 2 p.m., in response to the AP, the crew of Miss Kara, a industrial fishing ship, was discovered 5 miles off the coast of the island clinging to a buoy.

The fishermen, who the AP reported weren’t carrying life jackets, had been hoisted right into a MH-60 helicopter and flown to Cape Cod Gateway Airport in Hyannis, the place they had been handled by emergency medical companies.