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07-25-2006, 12:59 AM
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Rescuers from the Coast Guard and Alaska Air National Guard began late Monday trying to save 22 crew members from an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands, officials said.
"The first helicopter is on the scene, and starting hoist operations," said Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Haller.
The 654-foot Cougar Ace, which was carrying nearly 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada, had rolled practically onto its side.
The plan, Haller said, was to deliver all crew members to Adak Island, 230 miles away in the Aleutians.
"We will try to pick up all of them, if they can, if not, at least most of them," he said. If not all can be taken to Adak, the remainder will be transferred to a nearby merchant marine ship.
A Coast Guard helicopter, two Pave Hawk helicopters, two refueling planes and a C-130 plane left from an Air National Guard base in Anchorage to take part in the rescue.
Earlier Monday, a Coast Guard plane dropped three life rafts, but roiling Pacific waters shoved the rafts underneath the ship, about 230 miles from Adak Island in the Aleutians.
Rescuers then dropped an additional raft, but the crew members had taken refuge on the high side of the tilted vessel and the raft was 150 feet below, beyond their reach. The crew were wearing survival suits, officials said.
A merchant marine ship reached the vessel Monday morning. Its crew tried, but failed, to rig a line to the Cougar Ace to keep it from tilting further.
The Singapore-flagged vessel contained life boats and rafts, but it would have been too risky for the crew to venture to the area where they were stored, said Greg Beuerman, a spokesman for the ship owner, Tokyo-based O.S.K Lines.
Communications became difficult when the batteries in the crew's hand-held radio began losing power, said Coast Guard Lt. Mara Booth-Miller. Crew members had to shout to the merchant ship, which relayed messages to the Coast Guard.
It was not immediately clear what caused the ship to list. Its crew had sent out an SOS late Sunday.
One crew member had a broken leg, but no other injuries were immediately reported, authorities said.
The Coast Guard had alerted a clinic in the small town of Adak, a former Naval air station on the island of the same name, to gear up for treating the broken leg and possible hypothermia cases.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Rescuers from the Coast Guard and Alaska Air National Guard began late Monday trying to save 22 crew members from an Asian cargo ship taking on water south of the Aleutian Islands, officials said.
"The first helicopter is on the scene, and starting hoist operations," said Alaska National Guard spokesman Maj. Mike Haller.
The 654-foot Cougar Ace, which was carrying nearly 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada, had rolled practically onto its side.
The plan, Haller said, was to deliver all crew members to Adak Island, 230 miles away in the Aleutians.
"We will try to pick up all of them, if they can, if not, at least most of them," he said. If not all can be taken to Adak, the remainder will be transferred to a nearby merchant marine ship.
A Coast Guard helicopter, two Pave Hawk helicopters, two refueling planes and a C-130 plane left from an Air National Guard base in Anchorage to take part in the rescue.
Earlier Monday, a Coast Guard plane dropped three life rafts, but roiling Pacific waters shoved the rafts underneath the ship, about 230 miles from Adak Island in the Aleutians.
Rescuers then dropped an additional raft, but the crew members had taken refuge on the high side of the tilted vessel and the raft was 150 feet below, beyond their reach. The crew were wearing survival suits, officials said.
A merchant marine ship reached the vessel Monday morning. Its crew tried, but failed, to rig a line to the Cougar Ace to keep it from tilting further.
The Singapore-flagged vessel contained life boats and rafts, but it would have been too risky for the crew to venture to the area where they were stored, said Greg Beuerman, a spokesman for the ship owner, Tokyo-based O.S.K Lines.
Communications became difficult when the batteries in the crew's hand-held radio began losing power, said Coast Guard Lt. Mara Booth-Miller. Crew members had to shout to the merchant ship, which relayed messages to the Coast Guard.
It was not immediately clear what caused the ship to list. Its crew had sent out an SOS late Sunday.
One crew member had a broken leg, but no other injuries were immediately reported, authorities said.
The Coast Guard had alerted a clinic in the small town of Adak, a former Naval air station on the island of the same name, to gear up for treating the broken leg and possible hypothermia cases.
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