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Video: Coast Guard locates 6 missing mariners in Kuskokwim Bay

The U. S. Coast Guard on Sunday located six mariners whose vessel ran out of fuel in Kuskokwim Bay in Southwest Alaska, and helped good Samaritans in rescuing the stranded boaters.

The Coast Guard launched a Hercules HC-130 airplane that relayed the location to an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and the good Samaritans, who provided fuel to the stranded vessel and escorted it to shore, according to a Coast Guard release.

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