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U.S. Coast Guard Seventeenth District
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News Release Date: Sept. 9, 2009
Contact: Petty Officer 1st Class David Mosley
Phone: (907) 321-4510

Coast Guard makes high wind cliff rescue on Unalaska Island

BERING SEA (March 23, 2008) Imagery of the Alaska Ranger rescue from the Coast Guard Cutter Munro. The Alaska Ranger sank 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor March 23, 2008.USCG photo FOR RELEASE.   JUNEAU, Alaska - A People's Republic of China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command (FLEC) officer, in cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard, seized a Chinese fishing vessel suspected of illegal large-scale high-seas drift net fishing 460 miles east of Hokkaido, Japan. Coast Guard photo taken by USCGC Munro.   CHUCKCHI SEA, Alaska Ð Petty Officer Matthew Lotz, a flight mechanic from Kodiak, helps prepare the HH-65 Dolphin for storage on the stern of the Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton. The Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton is the first high endurance cutter to be in Arctic waters for the Coast Guard ith the sole mission of homeland security. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer Richard Brahm)

Coast Guard stock photos of the Cutter Munro and a HH-65 Dolphin Helicopter

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A Coast Guard HH-65 Dolphin helicopter and crew aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Munro rescued a 39-year-old Dutch Harbor man while fighting more than 45 mph winds from a cliff face on Unalaska Island 22-miles southwest of Dutch Harbor at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday.

Dan Young reportedly fell down a cliff face injuring both legs.  He then activated the emergency feature on his personal locating device alerting Coast Guard and local authorities of his exact location.

Munro, conducting maritime safety and security patrols in the Bering Sea, immediately launched the Dolphin and the crew successfully hoisted Young and his dog.

“The winds were what made this rescue difficult.  We weren’t sure if we were going to be able to get in and rescue him,” said Lt. Jason Smith, HH-65 aircraft commander from Kodiak. “As we came in for the hoist everything just seemed to line up and the rescue went great.”

Young was transferred to awaiting emergency personnel at Dutch Harbor Airport at 6:40 p.m.

The Cutter Munro is a 378-foot High Endurance Cutter homeported in Kodiak, Alaska.

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