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Tanais Leader involved in rescue of four boaters

Coast Guard rescue crews combined efforts with the car carrier "Heijin" and the "Tanais Leader" to rescue four men from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 380 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico on Mar 6, 2013 after a rogue wave reportedly caused their 29-foot row boat "James Robert Hanssen" to capsize. The rescued men, who work for the Canadian Wildlife Foundation, were on the seventy third day of an estimated 100-day voyage that originated in Dakar, Senegal and would finalize in Miami, when their journey ended abruptly and they were forced to embark the row boat’s emergency life raft. Coast Guard Sector San Juan watchstanders received at 6:30a.m. a 406 MHZ Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon EPIRB distress signal from the "James Robert Hanssen". Coast Guard watchstanders immediately coordinated the launch of a Coast Guard HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft from Air Station Miami and a C-130 Hercules aircraft from Air Station Clearwater Fla. to search for the distressed vessel and possible survivors. Coast Guard watchstanders also conducted Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) callouts to identify and notify commercial vessels transiting in the vicinity of the distress. The "Heijin" and "Tanais Leader" responded to the emergency callouts and diverted from their transit to provide assistance to the distressed boaters. The crew of the HC-144 Ocean Sentry arrived on scene at approximately 11a.m. Saturday and located all four men safely onboard the life raft and they dropped food rations for the boaters as well as a VHF marine radio to establish communications. The Coast Guard C-130 aircraft later arrived on scene and the crew also dropped a second load of rations and a VHF marine radio, which the boaters used to confirm they were all safe. The Coast Guard C-130 aircraft crew maintained watch over the boaters and vectored in the "Heijin" and "Tanais Leader" to their position. The mariners aboard the "Heijin" safely recovered all four survivors from the life raft shortly before sunset and transported them to Puerto Rico.