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The morning of February 4\u00a0was busy for the U.S. Coast Guard in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as members from it responded to two separate incidents out on the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to local news source the Cape Cod Times, Captain R.M. Chace and his crew of four sent a distress call at 1:21 a.m. when they realized that their boat had begun filling with water approximately eight miles south of Chatham. The men had a dewatering pump onboard the vessel, and were able to remove most of the water before Coast Guard officials arrived. Nevertheless, the Coast Guard sent a helicopter and two motor lifeboats to assist in the rescue, helping the watercraft and its crew reach the shore of Hyannis by 5 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Coast Guard Public Affairs Specialist Adam Stanton told the source that the likely cause of the incident was an unsecured hatch.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We encourage mariners to ensure all watertight hatches and doors function properly to prevent unintentional flooding of critical compartments,” Senior Chief Rob Goley\u00a0of the Chatham Coast Guard said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Later that morning at around 8:40 a.m., the Coast Guard assisted the crew of Raiders, a commercial fishing boat off the coast of Nantucket that had caught fire. Fortunately, they were able to put out the flames – partly in thanks to the help of a bystander who provided additional fire extinguishers – and save the eight people aboard the vessel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As these two incidents illustrate, there are a number of risks associated with owning and operating watercraft – either personally or professionally. As such, many boat owners turn to marine insurance<\/a> agencies that can help them find the best rates and ensure that they are covered in the case of an accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The morning of February 4 was busy for the U.S. Coast Guard in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as members from it responded to two separate incidents out on the water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiskusa.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}