The United States Coast Guard rescued a man and his dog after his sailboat became disabled and started taking on water 25 miles off of Sanibel Island on Thursday (September 26) as Hurricane Helene approached .
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater received the man’s distress and dispatched a rescue crew to his location. The rescuers battled choppy seas as they rappelled down from a helicopter to reach the man and his dog. First, they grabbed his dog, secured it in a basket, and pulled it up to the helicopter.
Then they went back and secured the man and pulled him to safety…