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Coast Guard honors Oregon man with the Distinguished Public Service Award who saved 3 people from capsized commercial fishing boat
Curtis Green saw the 40-foot Darean Rose get stuck on a sand bar the day after Christmas 2019 as he worked the dock at Russell’s Marine Fuel & Supply, his family’s business in Charleston. Then the boat capsized. Green yelled for someone to do something. Then he looked around – and he got it done. “I saw the panic in their eyes, I could literally see the whites of their eyes as it was going down,” he said. “I just happened to be the closest one.” Video, >click to read< 07:46
They were trapped inside the wheelhouse at the time of capsize and it was full of water, no air pockets, and Curtis Green from Russell’s Marine fuel pier jumped in the water,”
Curtis Green saw the 40-foot Darean Rose get stuck on a sand bar Thursday as he worked the dock at his family’s business in Charleston, Russell’s Marine Fuel & Supply. “As they were trying to get off, I think that something inside broke from their keel and they started taking on water,” Green said. “As they were trying to get off the sand bar there is when it kind of sluffed off and then we saw it take a turn for the worse and capsized.” Green yelled for someone to do something. Photos, Video, >click to read< 06:14
