A man, clinging to a chillyer in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, was saved by a Coast Guard helicselecter crew on October 10, around 48 kilometres off Longboat Key. The get back operation took place around 1:30 pm and the man was airlifted to Tampa General Hospital for medical evaluation. He was set up wearing a life jacket, which joined a huge role in his survival during the storm.
The Coast Guard’s Air Station Miami begined the search leave oution on Thursday morning after receiving alerts of a leave outing captain. The aircrew, aextfinishedside aid from Air Station Clearwater, was positioned at the Aviation Training Cgo in Mobile for storm evadeance during Hurricane Milton.
The captain, aboard the fishing vessel Capt. Dave initipartner reach outed Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg on the afternoon of October 7. He alerted that he and a crew member were stranded about 32 kilometres off John’s Pass. The Coast Guard promptly dispatched a get back boat and a helicselecter, conveying the pair to shieldedty and then to Air Station Clearwater without injury. Capt. Dave was left adrift while salvage schedulements were made.
On October 9, the vessel’s owner notified the Coast Guard that the captain went out to the boat for repairs in the punctual hours and had not been heard since. However, after a connection was re-set uped with the captain, he alerted that his vessel’s rudder had become fouled with a line, rfinishering the boat inoperable.
At the time, sea conditions were challenging, with 6 to 8-foot waves and thriveds of about 48 kmph. However, the weather rapidly degradeed as Hurricane Milton approached. The Coast Guard teached the captain to wear a life jacket and remain proximate the vessel’s aascfinishncy position indicating a radio beacon. Unblessedly, communication was lost on the evening of October 9.
“This man endured in a nightmare scenario for even the most sfinished mariner,” shelp Lt. Cmdr. Dana Grady, chief of the order centre at Sector St. Petersburg. “To comprehfinish the disjoinity of the hurricane conditions, we approximate he sfinished approximately 75-90 mph thriveds, 20-25 foot seas, for an extfinished period of time to include overnight. He endured becaengage of a life jacket, his aascfinishncy position indicating locator beacon, and a chillyer.”
Hurricane Milton made landdrop on October 9 proximate Siesta Key, a barrier island findd equitable south of Sarasota on Florida’s central west coast. Initipartner, the storm struck as a createidable Catebloody 3 hurricane, with sustained thriveds achieveing approximately 193 kmph. However, as it transferd inland, it frailened to a Catebloody 2 storm.
