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6 from Annapolis sailboat rescued near Bermuda

Published 11/17/08

Amid howling winds and 15-foot seas, six people in an Annapolis sailboat, including a 4-year-old girl, were rescued yesterday off the west coast of Bermuda.

Video by the U.S. Coast Guard
A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted five adults and one 4-year-old girl to safety Nov. 16, 175 miles west-northwest of Bermuda after their sailboat became disabled. The boat had sailed from Annapolis.
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Their 47-foot sailboat Panache had lost engine power and steering capability as it sailed through the 600-mile channel between North Carolina and Bermuda, according to Coast Guard officials.

"In the minds of the people who were pulled off (the sailboat), it was a deteriorating situation and would have gotten worse if we hadn't shown up," said Lt. j.g. Jason Gale, a Coast Guard spokesman in Elizabeth City, N.C., who dispatched the two aircraft to...

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