By Delayna Earley
The Island News
The U.S. Coast Guard along with help from partner agencies rescued a woman and two dogs on Sunday, Sept. 15, after they became stranded on Bay Point Island.
Coast Guard Sector Charleston watchstanders received a notification at 5:15 p.m. from a “good Samaritan” stating that he rescued a 60-year-old man wearing a lifejacket from the water, according to a release from the Coast Guard.
The rescued man stated that he beached his vessel on Bay Point Island, but he tried to swim after it when it drifted away.
He said he was in the water for around seven hours while his wife and two dogs were stranded on the island with no way to communicate with anyone.
A Beaufort Water Search and Rescue crew responded in addition to a Coast Guard Station Tybee boat crew and a Coast Guard Air Station Savannah helicopter crew.
According to the release, the Beaufort rescue crew arrived on scene, took aboard the woman and dogs and transported them to Port Royal boat ramp.
The Station Tybee boat crew, with assistance from the helicopter crew, located the adrift vessel and towed it to the boat ramp, according to the release.
There were no injuries reported.
Delayna Earley, who joined The Island News in 2022, formerly worked as a photojournalist for The Island Packet/The Beaufort Gazette, as well as newspapers in Indiana and Virginia. She can be reached at delayna.theislandnews@gmail.com.
