PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state fisherman was rescued by the Coast Guard just before his boat sank off the Oregon coast.
Officials said 53-year-old Michael Arthur Stone of Longview, Wash., was rescued Tuesday morning by a helicopter crew from Coast Guard Group Astoria.
The Coast Guard said Stone was 20 miles west of the Columbia River entrance at about 5 a.m. when an emergency beacon signal and a broken radio call of “mayday” was received.
A nearby fishing vessel, Gallatin Point, responded to the emergency beacon and reported that the 34-foot Rose Marie was low in the water and that one person was in a life raft hanging on to the boat’s stern.
