August 7, 2018 — Fishermen came to the rescue of seven people whose boat sank Saturday several miles off the coast of Cape May, New Jersey, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The seven were aboard a boat called “Beach Runner,” when it started “rapidly taking on water” about nine miles off shore in the area of Cape May reef, the Coast Guard said.
They had issued a distress call on radio Channel 16, which prompted an “Urgent Marine Information Broadcast” to alert boaters in the area.
The signal worked: Two other nearby fishing boats, the Miss Addison and the Porgy IV, rushed to the scene to pluck the seven fellow boaters from the ocean.