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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