they conducted these challenging rescues in beaumont. they say trying to spot people from above is like finding a needle in a haystack. watch this. they just believe they have somebody who has been waving to them. it s a confusing situation now. they can t tell for sure if this is somebody who wants to be rescued or not. the rescue diver is ready to go down if necessary. but they re trying to figure out exactly it s one of the difficultition these coast guard crews are having, is just the lack of communication. they get information based on 911 calls, but a lot of the people that they ve been rescuing, they just see, they get a visual on and they hover over the area, give them a thumbs up or a thumbs down to get an indication of whether they need to actually be rescued. so these two folks right hrer
employees at the coast guard yard in baltimore, maryland, and he told me that his family friend, good family friend, that he saw one of the crew members come home as a baby, saw him grow up, saw him go off on the ship. so those type of things make it very personal as we search. but i know that the coast guard along with our brethren in the navy and the air force as well as the commercial tugs that were out there helping us search did all they could in this search effort. they did all they could. our coast guard crews, our aircraft, flew repeatedly into that storm at dangerously low altitudes to try to find the ship, find survivors. on sunday, one of our helicopters flew for 11 hours, over 11 hours, including two in-flight refuellings, because they wanted to keep that search going during the best search opportunity that we had on sunday.
have people there to respond, plans to keep people notified and maybe out of harms way during the course of the incident and maybe, just maybe save more lives. we got to find solutions somehow, some way. thank you. another fox news alert. coast guard crews are searching for a missing cargo ship caught in the path of this huge hurricane moving, hurricane joaquin. the ship looked like this one. it s from florida. it disappeared in route to puerto rico. it s in the eye of the storm. coast guard rescuing a dozen crew member who is abandoned another trip. trace, first of all, tell us about the first rescue. it s really a page out of perfect storm but good ending. there were 12 mariners on board. the ship was about 55 miles off the coast of haiti when the may