MetalCraft Marine

Check out this report From Ponce de Leon Inlet, Florida. It's a rescue involving one of the new MetalCraft Marine Long Range Interceptor 35 vessels while it was out on sea-trials.

Coast Guard: 3 plucked from inlet after boat capsizes

Rescuers pull up to three men whose boat flipped in the middle of Ponce de Leon Inlet on Sunday.

By Mark I. Johnson
STAFF WRITER
Published: Monday, January 21, 2013 at 1:30 p.m.

Three men escaped injury when their boat capsized in heavy seas at the mouth of Ponce de Leon Inlet, a U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said.

"About 3:30 p.m. (Sunday) a 10-foot-long boat with three persons aboard capsized," Petty Officer Jessica Potter said Monday morning. "The boat was too small for sea and wind conditions."

She said a Good Samaritan spotted the overturned boat and plucked its unidentified occupants out of the water before a crew from U.S. Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon Inlet arrived on scene.

Port Orange real estate agent Phil Hanner said he was walking with his daughter along the North Jetty of the inlet when he saw what looked like men standing upon the water.

"They were waving their arms trying to get someone's attention," Hanner said. "It was super rough out there."

A stand-up paddleboarder went to the men's aid, he said.

Hanner said a crew from Towboat US hooked a line to the capsized craft and towed it to shore.

Neither Potter nor Hanner could say whether the boat's occupants were wearing lifejackets at the time of the mishap.