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Offshore ship rescued two boaters

The Coast Guard was searching for a person in the water near Pilottown in Plaquemines Parish, Corina Castro, 38, from Modesto, California. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a report around 9 p.m. in the evening of Sep 2, 2020, of a 34-foot catamaran taking on water near West Delta Block 109, approximately six miles southwest of Southwest Pass, near Pilottown, with three people aboard. A Coast Guard Station Venice 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew and a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter aircrew were dispatched to the vicinity. The sector watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast, to which the 'Mr. Jake' responded and was able to recover two people from the water. Both were reported to be wearing life jackets and in stable condition. Currently involved in the search for the missing person were a Station Venice 45-foot Response Boat-Medium boat crew, an Air Station New Orleans MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter aircrew, the Coast Guard Cutter 'Sailfish, an 87-foot coastal patrol boat and an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew of the Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile