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Coastguard took leaking freighter in tow

The US Coast Guard assisted the "Grace" with 16 people aboard to the Las Calderas, Dominican Republic. Watchstanders with the Coast Guard 7th District Command Center received an emergency position indicating radio beacon on July 22, 2017, from the "Grace" approximately 35 miles south of Haiti. The watchstanders directed the launch of a Coast Guard HC-130 Hercules airplane crew and diverted the Coast Guard Cutter "Dauntless" to conduct a search and issued an emergency group callout to other maritime vessels in the area. The airplane crew arrived on scene around 3 p.m. and established communications with the vessel who stated they were taking on water and disabled. The airplane crew dropped a dewatering pump, food and water to the fishing vessel. A Coast Guard Air Station Miami HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew was diverted around midnight to assist the Grace Zanzibar crew by dropping another dewatering pump following a report that the flooding was beyond a single pump’s capacity. The Coast Guard crews were assisted in the search and response by three good Samaritan vessels, the "Pegasus Highway", "Oslo Bulk 8" and "Tampa Trader". The "Dauntless" crew arrived on scene at approximately 10:15 a.m. on July 23 and deployed a rescue and assistance crew to help the fishing vessel with flooding. The "Dauntless"’ small boat crew was able to secure the source of the flooding and the cutter took the disabled fishing vessel in tow. The cutter crew was also assisted by the Dominican Republic Navy vessel "Canopus". They were scheduled to arrive in Las Calderas, Dominican Republic in the afternoon of July 25. Report with photo: http://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-tows-disabled-fishing-vessel-35-miles-south-of-haiti-to-dominican-republic/2017/07/25/