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Date: October 15, 2011

Contact: Ninth Coast Guard District Public Affairs Office

(216) 902-6020

VIDEO: Coast Guard releases helicopter hoist footage of Ashtabula duckhunter rescue

CLEVELAND — The Coast Guard is releasing footage this evening from a response that resulted in the rescue of four duckhunters who were stranded on the east breakwall of Ashtabula Harbor near Ashtabula, Ohio, Saturday morning.

Click here to read the initial news release, which includes still photos.

The names of the four men are not being released.  However, it was learned that three, ages 35, 38 and 41, are from Montville, Ohio, and the fourth is a 34-year-old Rome, Ohio, man.

 

Click here to view or download the "hoist cam" footage in .AVI format.

Click here to view or download the "hoist cam" footage in .MOV format.

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DETROIT — This screen-capture shows the "hoist cam" of an MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Detroit as the crew hoists four duckhunters who became stranded on the east breakwall of Ashtabula Harbor, in Ashtabula, Ohio, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011.

 

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