Coast Guard, responding vessels rescue 4 U.S. boaters from life raft on the Atlantic Ocean
A Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew maintains air coverage of a life raft, Jan. 21, 2025, during the rescue of four U.S. boaters, who moments earlier were forced to abandon the sailing vessel Mariposa after it sank in Atlantic Ocean waters north of Dominican Republic. The four boaters were rescued by fishermen from the fishing vessel Bonanza who transferred the survivors to the U.S. flagged container ship Coqui for their transport to Jacksonville, Fla. (U.S. Coast Guard photo)