"Don't let go, don't let go," he heard someone yell. It felt to Shuck as though he'd been in the water for hours. As the Jayhawk raced toward the cutter Munro, rescue swimmer Hollow treated the worst-off fishermen with sternum rubs—a noogie-like technique for keeping hypothermic patients alert. Crew members' hats sit on chairs as they eat celebratory cake following a ceremony in honor of the USCGC Mellon's 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. But even with the thick foam suits sealed properly, few can survive in the Bering Sea for more than 2 hours. This site is intended for the use of our crewmembers, families, and friends, as well as newly reporting personnel. He expected the Munro to keep heading south as well, shortening the return flight. Hull lunged for an icy rail and held tight as crew members clinging to the rail below him gazed up in horror. But in the second that he turned away to grab his knife, the fisherman slipped. It felt like a roller coaster he couldn't get off. On December 12, 2017, the Coast Guard announced that it planned to name its 45th Sentinel class cutter the USCGC Emlen Tunnell. The Coast Guard awarded a contract for its next polar security cutter, as its icebreakers are known, in April 2019. The men struggled to launch the ice-crusted life rafts. Then you just pick a spot as quickly as you can and start getting people out of the water.". "He's okay, he's moving," the pilot said. Captain Pete was dead. Adm. DeQuattro said the Mellon will have to make it at least a few more years in service as replacements -- national security class ships -- are being bought one at a time and they aren't cheap. Then Shuck was rushed from the deck. "Mellon has been and remains a durable and persistent instrument that has ensured the safety and security and sovereignty of the United States around the globe for five decades.". Though her defense missions may be fewer and farther between than other efforts, Mellon is prepared with a 76mm cannon up front and three other deck-mounted guns, as well as armaments for boarding officers and other members of the crew. But because the Ranger was moving astern, the rafts shot toward the bow instead of floating in place near the side of the vessel. Mar 10, 2020 - Explore Don Hunter's board "USCG-Bibb (WPG-31)" on Pinterest. They saved his life. He could see a cluster of four or five lights a couple of hundred yards behind him, but it was too far to swim; he was already exhausted. The 225-foot Coast Guard Cutter Oak is underway in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, Wednesday, March 29, 2017 to replace seasonal aids to navigation. That mission was just one of the many expected of the Mellon when it was constructed, as the ship was intended to do it all -- search and rescue, defense operations, law enforcement, environmental protection and oceanographic research (collecting weather data among those). Hollow asked if he could keep his arms solid at his sides. Before the accident, he said, the guys on his crew weren't so crazy about the Coast Guard. CRS report on Coast Guard cutter procurement. "For us this is pretty huge, about as big a case as you can imagine," McLaughlin reflected in the days afterward. By the end of April, the winter fishing season was drawing to an end. The Alaska Warrior's crew gave the survivors blankets and microwaved potatoes to hold in their armpits. Each NSC is capable of operating in the most demanding open ocean environments, including the hazardous fisheries of the North Pacific and the vast approaches of the Southern Pacific where much of the American narcotics traffic occurs. Stephen Burdian leaves the captain's cabin aboard the USCGC Mellon at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The 12 people inside the second life raft were not as lucky. Among them was Gwen Rains, a biologist from Marshall, Ark., who had worked in Alaska as a fisheries observer for the past two years. Lloyd, a career Coast Guard man, said. The money will fund another National Security Cutter, which at 418-feet is nearly the size of a Navy frigate and the largest ship the Coast Guard has ever owned. And the ships that fish these northern waters would leave their harbors for another season. Then the trawler took a sudden, violent list to starboard. Pete Jacobsen. She noticed that some of the seals on the watertight doors looked like they were in poor shape. Capt. All around, the lights attached to his friends' survival suits were spreading out in the 32 F water, blinking in and out of view as the men bobbed up and down in the 20-ft. swells. With a dozen lights still flashing below, McLaughlin, as the aircraft commander, made a tough call: They would attempt to save time by lowering their survivors to the Warrior. She had a GPS-enabled beacon that had been provided by her employer, but she couldn't tell if it was working. USCGC Mellon crew members enjoy cake during a ceremony celebrating the cutter's 50th anniversary of the at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. "Roger. He was sitting in a shallow puddle of freezing water. 5 talking about this. A painting of the Seattle skyline adorns the Captain's cabin aboard the USCGC Mellon at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. It was 2:52 am on March 23, Easter morning, when Coast Guard Station Kodiak picked up the distress call from a point almost 800 miles west, in Alaska's frigid Bering Sea. Peek inside Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter. Then Shuck smiled. The dozen people in the second raft were recovered soon after. But then the cutter got word that the Jayhawk had failed to unload its survivors on the Alaska Warrior. Warrior Maven Video Above: Northrop Grumman & Eastern Shipbuilding Group Build New Coast Guard OffShore Patrol Cutter By Kris Osborn - Warrior … The service recently took delivery of the Stratton , the third of eight high-endurance cutters to … Shuck watched his fellow crew members disappear from the edge of the helicopter one by one. Stephen Burdian, the current captain of Mellon, during an event honoring 50th anniversary of the ship's commissioning. Shuck had been one of the first to jump. And she was ill. The gantry was a hazard in the rough seas. We did it without hurting ourselves and becoming part of the problem. Instead, he boomed it in as close to the helicopter as possible and reached for his knife. Vessels the size of the Alaska Ranger are required by federal law to sail with observers, who are charged with ensuring real-world fishing practices are in line with regulations. (The company did not respond to repeated attempts to contact it for this story.) The normal stuff: There was a medevac case for a man involved in an ATV accident in a remote village, and a couple of searches for overdue vessels. Fortunately, the Coast Guard has been working on a replacement. The only Coast Guard Cutter afloat today to receive two Presidential Unit Citations for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy. Maybe if he just let himself sink to the bottom, it would be easier. The trawler was less than 10 miles away; the cutter Munro, which had both fuel and trained medical personnel, was still 75 miles to the north. But there were five people, it was daytime," he said. With his survivor halfway out of the basket, Musgrave couldn't pull it entirely inside the rig to unload. Hull saw the deckhands bring an unresponsive man down to the galley and lay him out on a table. "I would say, when you look at the record of success, I think it really captures everything the Coast Guard does as an armed service," DeQuattro told SeattlePI. Which Are Safer: Cloth Masks or Surgical Masks? The Coast Guard had been busy, though. A deep storage room aboard the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. See more ideas about uscg, bibb, coast guard. After a two-month voyage, the crew aboard Coast Guard Cutter Juniper is far away from home; they’re 2,300 miles northeast of homeport… at the top of the world.. Juniper – a 225-foot buoy tender homeported in Newport, R.I. – is in the Arctic participating in Operation Nanook 2012. In Dutch Harbor, most of the fishing fleet had returned to port for a break before the summer season got underway. Did poor maintenance of the ship's watertight doors contribute to the speed with which the vessel went down? The kitchen of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The thick, neoprene "Gumby" suit, which looks a little like a child's footed pajamas, has a zipper up the front that is supposed to form a tight seal at the neck to keep the body dry. When the rescue teams returned to Kodiak, they briefed the entire air station on the details of the mission, an operation that, considering both the number of people airlifted and the treacherous conditions, was unprecedented in Coast Guard history. She's chased mutineers, rescued hundreds from sinking and damaged ships, stopped large illegal drug shipments from entering the U.S, and watched over the Bering Sea fisheries. He can be reached at 206-448-8362 or danieldemay@seattlepi.com. It was just after 5 in the morning, but in Alaska in winter, that's still pitch dark. "We saved 42 lives. She had worked on other ships owned by the Ranger's parent company, though, and had become friends with the trawler's first mate, David Silveira, who normally served as captain on another vessel. Back onboard the Munro, Ryan Shuck had heard that some men hadn't made it—but he didn't know who. Line is wrapped around a book case in hopes of stopping books from falling when the USCGC Mellon heels, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Outside, the deck was slick with ice, and waves were beginning to crest over the stern. Violently so. The four-man crew of the Jayhawk helicopter arrived on scene shortly after the trawler sank. Welcome to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter DILIGENCE's page on Facebook. For an instant, he thought he saw the man move his arms in the waves. Now, flight mechanic Rob Debolt pitched the pump into the sea. Popular Mechanics participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. It was too dangerous; they'd offload onto the Munro instead. A cutter is any Coast Guard vessel 65 feet in length or more, which has living accommodations for its crew. Stephen Burdian and Command Senior Chief Sean Fullwood listen to speakers during a ceremony celebrating the 50th anniversary of the USCGC Mellon at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Hull watched as the crew checked his vital signs and began CPR. But then, a heart-wrenching reality set in: "Never mind. It seemed more rundown than other ships she'd worked on. The hawser storage locker, or rope locker, of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. His hands and feet were numb, and he'd spent the past hour being pounded by breaking waves. If he lost his grip, Hull would hurtle down the deck like a bowling ball, knocking the men into the sea. FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:Mike @ 440-470-2595 or … He'd leaped from the middle of the ship—and was quickly sucked under and beyond his raft. The program partnered with the Naval Sea Systems Command to conduct an independent alternatives analysis to evaluate materiel and non-materiel solutions to meet mission needs within cost and schedule constraints. It would all be over much faster. Video Special: Inside the New U.S. Coast Guard OffShore Patrol Cutter defensemaven.io - Warrior Maven. Many crewmen traveled home to visit their families. Hull began CPR on the fisherman, whom he recognized as Byron Carrillo, a 36-year-old from the Los Angeles area who had only been on the crew for a week. Then they came to a group of six men who had linked arms in the water. He ordered engineers to switch the 378-ft. cutter from its standard diesel engines to Pratt & Whitney FT4A engines, similar to the ones that power Boeing 707s. Written by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cynthia Oldham. Hovering the helicopter above the cutter, the crew used the hoist hook to draw up a fuel hose carefully snaked out on deck, then moved about 30 ft. off the side of the ship to refuel. They knew the Coast Guard had their location and that help was on the way. Eric Risdon escorted a tour of the ship, describing its various systems and history, something he said he's learned well over his last year of service aboard the Mellon. Instead, we were part of the solution.". Three times, the men tried to lower the survivor as the Warrior pitched and rolled violently in the waves. Then they waited. They carry the … Then he hit the water waist-deep and the wind carried him right to Shuck. Outside, the Jayhawk had lowered its last survivor, and was gassing up using an emergency method known as HIFR (helicopter in-flight refueling). Minutes later, another man was pulled from the waves. Fm. Coast guard boats shuttle in and out of U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The so-called head-and-guts vessel has a factory below decks where the catch is partially prepared for sale; it is roughly twice as long as the average king-crab boat the region is known for. His eyes were glazed over. Bonn, 39, had served as an Army Blackhawk pilot before joining the Coast Guard eight years ago. "But when you need them, you're happy to see them." Cutter teams all across the Coast Guard are answering the call to duty. Fm. Meanwhile, engineers switched the cutter back to its diesel engines and changed course, steering the vessel into the wind to provide the helicopter with more stable conditions for what they knew would be a lengthy hover. He looked terrified. Brian Chambers speaks to past and present crew of the USCGC Mellon during a ceremony celebrating its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. In a Seattle diner on the day after his testimony, Ryan Shuck slowly shook his head when asked if he thought he would go back to fishing. We are closed from Friday, 25th December to Tuesday 29th December. After two American merchant mariners took over the Eagle, they forced the remaining crew to sail to Cambodian waters, where they escaped temporarily. After all, the most important piece of evidence now lies below more than 6000 ft. of ocean, on the floor of the Bering Sea. The Coast Guard cutter Valiant seized a a ‘narco sub’ carrying 12,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $165 million, according to a news release.. "I can do whatever you want me to do." Now he was farther downwind than anyone else. DeQuatrro noted, as did Burdian, that Mellon's advanced age makes her a tougher ship to keep up, but her service history shows the value of that investment. First Mate David Silveira had been unresponsive, the hood of his survival suit pulled back off his head, when he was lifted from the water by the Jayhawk on its return trip to the rescue scene. Daniel DeMay covers Seattle culture, city hall, and transportation for seattlepi.com. Peek inside Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter From chasing mutineers in Vietnam to rescues to cocaine busts, the ship has seen it all in 50 years' service Past and present crew members look through historical photographs of the USCGC Mellon's adventures during a ceremony celebrating its 50th anniversary of the USCGC Mellon at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The bottom of his suit was flooded. "There's always things we could have done better and done differently," Capt. The Munro's crew had set up an assembly line to get the fishermen out of the basket, across the deck, out of their suits, and down to the mess hall below. Her keel was laid in 1966 and she was officially commissioned on Jan. 9, 1968. The deck work cage of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The mess hall of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The Jayhawk crew counted 13 survivors pulled up in their first load; the Munro counted 12 lowered down. (Photographs by Henry Leutwyler), This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. David Hull had been in his raft for nearly 3 hours. Now the Munro would have to stop and receive them. The engine room of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Coast Guard Off Shore Patrol Cutter - Courtesy of Eastern Shipbuilding Group “This is the largest acquisition in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard. Now Jacobsen, 65, a veteran captain who had been fishing in the Bering Sea for 23 years, was making calls to his ship's sister vessels, repeating the coordinates of the Ranger's position 120 miles west of the Aleutian Island port of Dutch Harbor. Of the Coast Guard’s white-hull patrol cutter fleet, the NSC is the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the Coast Guard. USCGC TAHOMA (WMEC 908) Welcome to the official USCGC TAHOMA web site. "Mellon began her service long before many of her crew members were even born," said Capt. As he sank down into the darkness on the thin metal line, Hollow saw the man in the water reaching out, trying to swim toward him. The Mellon also monitors the Alaska fisheries industry, and in the Pacific, conducts law enforcement missions that sometimes include confiscating large hauls of illegal drugs. She has had a truly storied career, one that any U.S. Coast Guard officer would be proud of. CenturyLink Field can be seen from the deck of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. The rescue swimmer spent at least 10 minutes struggling to get the burly fisherman to calm down and settle into the basket, as flight mechanic Alfred Musgrave peered down from above. Now the anxious men were cycling through 5-minute warmup shifts in the wheelhouse, where they could barely recognize each other in the bulky, hooded suits. USCGC Harriet Lane, a Medium Endurance Cutter (WMEC) United States Coast Guard Cutter is the term used by the U.S. Coast Guard for its commissioned vessels. Then it was his turn. She wasn't the only one: Most of the people in the raft were vomiting straight into the standing water. Current crew of the USCGC Mellon pose for a photograph following a ceremony celebrating its 50th anniversary at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Her one friend had stayed behind on the sinking ship. After more than a week of hearings in Dutch Harbor and Anchorage, Alaska, the board reconvened in a bland hotel conference room near Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle, Wash., about 2 miles from the Fishing Company of Alaska's home office. But that exercise had been in daylight and in relatively calm conditions. The Alaska Ranger was something entirely different: "You get out there, you get on scene and you get into a hover and you look to your left, you look to your right, and you see strobe lights wherever you look. Within seconds, the man let go. The smaller helicopter was dangerously short on fuel, still 20 minutes from the cutter with only 36 minutes to "splash." And many of the dozen people inside had succumbed to seasickness. Eric Risdon shows off the throttle controls on the bridge USCGC Mellon during a tour at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. By 6 am, the coast guard cutter Munro had traveled close enough to launch its Dolphin helicopter. Tunnell was the first African American and first defensive player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1967. 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"But if you can make it on a 378 (referring to the 378-foot high-endurance class that includes Mellon) and be successful, going to any unit in the Coast Guard should be a breeze.". She's a ship, Cutter Mellon, a Seattle-based Coast Guard cutter that was celebrated for her 50 years of service on Tuesday at the Seattle Coast Guard base. Over and over. Peter Jacobsen was in the crowded wheelhouse of the 189-ft. fishing vessel. The basket is also faster for lifting people clustered together, because the rescue swimmer stays in the water, prepping the next man to be hoisted up. His suit was stripped off and his vital signs checked; soon he was wrapped in warm blankets and drinking hot cider. They were all okay. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw team recently shared some of those freezing photos on their Facebook page, with this description: “We’re underway for some icebreaking training on the St. Mary’s River! There were times when the engineers fell asleep on watch. After about 15 minutes, McLaughlin made a second tough call. The Sentinel-class cutter, also known as Fast Response Cutter due to its program name, is part of the United States Coast Guard's Deepwater program. Brian Chambers, as well as Rear Adm. Pat DeQuattro, the deputy commander of the Pacific Area. Hull did 30 chest compressions, then mouth to mouth. A 28-year-old who grew up in the Seattle suburbs, Hull had spent three years as a fish processor on the Alaska Ranger. While the Warrior's crew used its crane to lift some people from the water, Hull struggled to swim to the vessel and pull himself up a ladder on the starboard side. Finally, the Warrior's first mate ordered him to end it. Almost every man walked off the ship with a pair of sneakers that a Coast Guard member had coughed up. The USCGC Mellon at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. Cocaine cowboys: Inside the US Coast Guard's war on drugs. Follow him on Twitter: @Daniel_DeMay. On Monday, Lloyd, the Munro's captain, gathered the Alaska Ranger's crew to give them the news. In less than an hour, they had a dozen men in oversize, waterlogged suits piled atop one another in the crowded cabin. "Yes," Shuck said, nodding. The U.S. Coast Guard does not endorse any … The Jayhawk crew cut the HIFR short to get out of its way and sped to pick up five more men—including Heller, the Dolphin's rescue swimmer, who had stayed behind to make more room for survivors. ... Our journey begins on the coast of El Salvador in 2017, where the coast guard cutter "Stratton" is preparing to depart. But as the basket rose toward the Dolphin, the fisherman raised himself to the rail. Grant is a photographer for seattlepi.com. This rescue, in driving snow and gusting winds, would test every aspect of their training. He was now four days into a two-week shift at the isolated base, where squads of rescuers stand by for emergencies involving the nation's largest—and most danger-plagued—fishing fleet. The man's survival suit had filled with water, adding as much as 100 pounds to his weight; Musgrave planned to slice the suit to let the water drain out. When Rains first climbed aboard the Alaska Ranger, she'd been struck by the vessel's condition. Still, everything was going smoothly; the Jayhawk was more than two-thirds of the way to its 6460-pound fuel capacity when the call came in from the Dolphin. The forward deck of the USCGC Mellon, seen during a tour of the vessel for its 50th anniversary, at U.S. Coast Guard Base Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. He liked and respected the captain, a peace-making, humble man who, despite his rank, would often lend a hand with chores, or head down to the factory to help the newbies pack fish. When Musgrave turned back, the man was hanging by his elbows from the open door. The raft's survival pack had been ripped open, and now the rations, flares and other emergency tools were soaked. For the full account of this rescue, pick up Kalee Thompson's latest book,Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History. It was almost inconceivable that so many had lived for even 2 hours. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, Video Allegedly Shows LA's Mysterious Jetpack Man, Gen. Chuck Yeager on Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Russian Wingship Future That Never Took Flight, New York to Europe by Clipper: A Historic Flight, Another Mysterious Jetpack Sighting Over LAX, Here It Is: The Ugliest Plane That Ever Lived, Guy Builds Foam F/A-18 With Real Jet Turbine. 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