Miami – Crewmembers from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., and the Coast Guard Cutter Tornado rescue Nick Schuyler from an overturned vessel 35 miles west of Tampa Bay, Fla., Monday, March 2, 2009.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, Fla., received a call Sunday around 1:30 a.m. reporting that four friends, Schuyler, Victor “Marquis” Cooper, Corey Smith and William Bleakley did not return from their fishing trip.
Coast Guard photos by Fireman Adam Campbell.
Nick Schuyler waits aboard his overturned boat as the Coast Guard locates him
A Coast Guard Cutter Tornado small boat rescues Nick Schuyler
Nick Schuyler is hoisted into a Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater helicopter.
