USCG release – The Coast Guard rescued one person found stranded atop a channel marker and recovered an unresponsive person from the water after a vessel capsized Sunday on the Columbia River, near Astoria, OR. After Sector Columbia River watchstanders were notified, an Air Station Astoria aircrew aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and a Station Cape Disappointment boatcrew aboard a 29-foot Response Boat-Small II were launched. A rescue swimmer was deployed to hoist the stranded person before recovering the unresponsive person from a nearby shallow-water area inaccessible by boat. The person found stranded atop the dayboard was transported to awaiting EMS at Air Station Astoria as the unresponsive person was transported by boat to EMS at the East Mooring Basin.
