SAND KEY, Fla. -- A Good Samaritan stepped in to help five boaters after their 30-foot boat capsized 22 miles west of Anclote Island Thursday morning.
An HC-130 Hercules aircraft spotted the five boaters clinging to debris around 10 a.m. and issued an urgent radio broadcast message. The aircraft deployed a life raft down to the boaters.
One of the passengers on a charter fishing boat named "Two Georges" from Tarpon Springs heard the message and responded. The Good Samaritan rescued the boaters from the water before the Coast Guard arrived on the scene.
A crew from the Coast Guard Station Sand Key 45-foot Response crew picked up the rescued boaters and dropped them off at Station Sand Key.
There were no reported injuries.
Way to go Coast Guard and Good Samaritan!
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