In a rescue United States Coast Guard officials are calling a “Thanksgiving miracle,” a 28-year-old man on a Carnival cruise from New Orleans spent a day floating in the Gulf of Mexico before a Coast Guard helicopter saved him.
from the Coast Guard’s 8th District Public Affairs Office. A rescue swimmer aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter secured him around 8:25 p.m. Thursday about 20 miles south of Southwest Pass, La. The man was last seen aboard the cruise ship around 11 p.m. Wednesday, the Coast Guard said, meaning he could have been treading water through the night and most of Thanksgiving.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued an overboard cruise ship passenger near Southwest Pass, La., on Nov. 24. “We are beyond grateful that this case ended with a positive outcome,” Lt. Seth Gross, a Sector New Orleans search and rescue mission coordinator, said in a news release. “It took a total team effort from Coast Guard watch standers, response crews, and our professional maritime partners operating in the Gulf of Mexico to locate the missing individual and get him to safety.”“It’s why we joined, really, is to do things like this,” Graves said.
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