The Coast Guard received a report of a boat in distress and rescue boats 18 miles off the Redondo Beach coast.
Nineteen migrants who were stranded in a disabled boat off the coast of Redondo Beach were rescued by the Coast Guard on Saturday.The rescue began at 9:10 a.m. when Coast Guard officers in the Los Angeles County received a call about a boat that wasn’t moving and appeared to be in distress, Petty Officer Richard Brahm said.
The helicopter crew from San Diego were the first to spot the disabled boat 18 miles west of Redondo Beach and radioed the location to the smaller rescue boat, Brahm said. With the help of Baywatch Redondo, the Coast Guard’s small boat rescue crew transferred all aboard the disabled boat to safety. The broken boat was towed to the Terminal Island base by the Coast Guard’s Cutter Blackfin.
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