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01-30-2017, 2:03pm
USCG's first rescue of a person from a truck
Land ho? U.S. Coast Guard rescues truck driver from high seas | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/01/30/land-ho-u-s-coast-guard-rescues-truck-driver-from-high-seas.html)
https://youtu.be/46A7eYkCRI8
A sightseer got caught in high seas off the coast of northern California on the morning of January 26 and had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard…from his truck.
The unidentified man had driven his Nissan pickup onto a jetty guarding the entrance to Humboldt Bay, just outside the city of Eureka. The area was under a National Weather Service advisory due to a swell that was creating surf heights of up to 27 feet and spectacular breakers, which were apparently what drew him to the popular vantage point.
Local photographer Tyler Whiteside was there for the same reason and captured the incident on video, which shows waves crashing over the jetty and swamping the truck as the driver continues further out into the ocean.
Land ho? U.S. Coast Guard rescues truck driver from high seas | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/auto/2017/01/30/land-ho-u-s-coast-guard-rescues-truck-driver-from-high-seas.html)
https://youtu.be/46A7eYkCRI8
A sightseer got caught in high seas off the coast of northern California on the morning of January 26 and had to be rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard…from his truck.
The unidentified man had driven his Nissan pickup onto a jetty guarding the entrance to Humboldt Bay, just outside the city of Eureka. The area was under a National Weather Service advisory due to a swell that was creating surf heights of up to 27 feet and spectacular breakers, which were apparently what drew him to the popular vantage point.
Local photographer Tyler Whiteside was there for the same reason and captured the incident on video, which shows waves crashing over the jetty and swamping the truck as the driver continues further out into the ocean.