Scandies Rose Hearing: Harrowing Account of Helicopter Rescue of Two Survivors by USCG Pilot
The Mayday call was short and scratchy but came through: “Mayday, Mayday, Mayday. This is the Scandies Rose. Scandies Rose. Scandies Rose. We’re 56 39 54 North, 157 01 West. [garbled] We’re rolling over. Scandies Rose, 56 39 ….”
Captain Gary Cobban, Jr. made that call only minutes before the vessel rolled over and sank, taking the lives of five men on December 31, 2019. It triggered a U.S. Coast Guard search-and-rescue (SAR) that found two survivors about four hours later.
The pilot who led ...
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