On Wednesday night, the US Coast Guard received 406 EPIRB signal, indicating a vessel was in distress in the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey.
“When our helicopter arrived on-scene, the crew followed a blinking strobe light and discovered a man and a woman clinging to the hull of their capsized sailboat,” said Lt. Tyler Bittner, the operations duty officer in Atlantic City.
“What do you do in that situation? You survive. You act on your instinct. You do whatever you can to survive.”
Kendrick credited the couple for making their rescue possible by having a registered emergency beacon with a current land-based contact.
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