BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – U.S. Coast Guard crews worked Wednesday into Thursday towing a disabled vessel back to shore on the Space Coast, helping rescue the three people on board.

Boat crews from the Ponce de Leon Inlet and Port Canaveral U.S. Coast Guard stations spent a combined 16 hours towing the 54-foot vessel after it became disabled some 74 miles off Cape Canaveral, U.S. Coast Guard Southeast said on social media.

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The vessel was then anchored offshore and corresponded with U.S. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville until a commercial salvage company towed it and its passengers safely ashore, the post states.

Bravo Zulu to the Station Ponce and Station Port Canaveral crews!

U.S. Coast Guard Southeast on Facebook, 6:27p.m. Thursday, May 22, 2025 (excerpt)

“The mariners had a satellite phone and an emergency position indication radio beacon providing us with clear communication and a location for our boat crew to assist them,” Lt. j.g. Andrew Sommerfeld, a U.S. Coast Guard Sector Jacksonville command center duty officer, said in a statement. “We recommend all mariners have a reliable means of notifying the Coast Guard of an emergency when venturing offshore.”

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