Miraculous Rescue: Fishermen Save 4 Men from Sinking Boat Off WA Coast

Rescue at Sea

• ⚓ The crabbing vessel Lady Nancy, approximately two miles west of Westport, Washington, heard a distress call and initiated a search.
• 🎯 After a 20-minute grid search, the crew spotted an orange life raft in the distance and headed towards it.
• 🌊 The Coast Guard later arrived and rescued four crew members from the sinking vessel, the Abby C., about an hour after the Lady Nancy crew first arrived on scene.

Critical Intervention

• 🆘 The Lady Nancy crew found two men in a life raft and two clinging to a survival suit, all suffering from hypothermia.
• ⏱️ The crew realized they arrived just in time as the life raft was also sinking.
• 🏊 One crew member, Roy Windom, dove into the water to rescue an unconscious man who was beginning to sink.
• 🙏 Windom performed CPR on the man, who was unresponsive, and he was revived after Windom began praying.

Outcome and Resilience

• 🤕 All four rescued men suffered from hypothermia, with one seriously injured but expected to survive.
• 💪 The injured man sustained sore ribs from the CPR, but the crew considered sore ribs a better outcome than death.
• 🚢 Despite the harrowing experience, the Lady Nancy crew was preparing to head back out crabbing the same night.