{"id":6444,"date":"2015-10-04T16:30:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T20:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2015-10-04T19:05:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T23:05:48","slug":"video-coast-guard-training-mission-turns-into-dramatic-rescue-at-manasquan-inlet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/10\/video-coast-guard-training-mission-turns-into-dramatic-rescue-at-manasquan-inlet\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Coast Guard Training Mission Turns Into Dramatic Rescue at Manasquan Inlet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s6D6J84tYgU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew on a training mission rescued a man who had been seen riding a personal watercraft in and around Manasquan Inlet on Sunday morning after a rescue swimmer on board spotted the small vessel with nobody on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s crazy how fortunate the timing was for everyone,\u201d said Coast Guard Chief Nick Ameen.<\/p>\n<p>The helicopter crew from Air Station Atlantic City was already in the area of the inlet on a training mission with a rescue swimmer on board. The rescue swimmer spotted the jet-ski, then moments later spotted its operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe started scanning the area and saw a person in the water,\u201d Ameen said.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hASKgfqdg8?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6446\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mi_rescue.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6446\" class=\" wp-image-6446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mi_rescue-400x471.jpg\" alt=\"A man is rescued at Manasquan Inlet, Oct. 4, 2015. (Photo: Barnegat Bay Island\/Facebook)\" width=\"158\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mi_rescue-400x471.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/mi_rescue.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 158px) 100vw, 158px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man is rescued at Manasquan Inlet, Oct. 4, 2015. (Photo: Barnegat Bay Island\/Facebook)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to witness reports, the man was riding the jet-ski in the inlet and just outside of it when the power of the currents in the area beached the jet-ski on the jetty rocks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween the weather conditions and the situation we were in \u2014 right by the jetty \u2014 he was in a really bad spot,\u201d said Petty Officer 3rd Class Billy Arrison, the rescue swimmer on the case. \u201cIt was only a matter of time until he would\u2019ve washed up on the rocks next to his jet ski.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the helicopter made a second pass, Arrison suited up and got ready to lower the rescue basket.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lowered the rescue swimmer down, and by this point the jet-skier had gotten pushed toward the jetty,\u201d said Ameen. \u201c[Arrison] came down in the water and just grabbed the guy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Manasquan police and first aid squad members assisted in the rescue operation, according to borough officials there.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who has not yet been identified, was okay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was just very exhausted by the time everything was done,\u201d Ameen said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/10\/video-coast-guard-training-mission-turns-into-dramatic-rescue-at-manasquan-inlet\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew on a training mission rescued a man who had been seen riding a personal watercraft in and around Manasquan Inlet on Sunday morning after a rescue swimmer on board spotted the small vessel with nobody on board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[24,1685,256,435,1686,1684],"class_list":["post-6444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-jet-ski","tag-manasquan-inlet","tag-noreaster","tag-pwc","tag-rescue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-10-04-at-4.32.07-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1FW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}