Document Number: 2490
 

Fifth District
U.S. Coast Guard

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Press Release

Date: Aug. 7, 2008
Contact: 609-677-2204

Coast Guard crew rescues 1 near Westville, N.J. 

WESTVILLE, N.J.- The Coast Guard rescued a man aboard a disabled jet ski Thursday in the Delaware River here.

The Coast Guard received a call at 2 p.m. from a member of the Sunoco Chemicals' Eagle Point Refinery in Westville reporting a man aboard a disabled jet ski near their pier needed assistance.

A rescue boat crew from Coast Guard Station Philadelphia arrived on scene and towed the jet ski and the man to Big Timber Creek marina near Westville.

 

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