The US Coast Guard rescued three passengers offshore Texas after their boat capsized on Saturday.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston command center received word at 11:03 a.m. Saturday that a 17-foot boat had capsized near Sargent, southwest of Galveston, with two adults and one juvenile on board.
To alert vessels in the vicinity, the Coast Guard issued an urgent maritime information broadcast and sent a Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 helicopter air crew, as well as a Coast Guard Station Freeport 29-foot response boat.
The Coast Guard tweeted photos of helicopter and boat crews arriving on the scene to find the three trapped boaters sitting atop the floating, flipped vessel. Nobody looked to be wearing life jackets.
The helicopter crew lowered a rescue swimmer into the sea to help the boaters get to the Coast Guard boat. All three were taken to Bridge Bait Marina in Freeport. There were no injuries recorded.
