DATE: Friday, August 1, 1997 TAG: 9708010725 SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS DATELINE: ELIZABETH CITY LENGTH: 23 lines
A merchant vessel rescued four people who abandoned their fishing boat Thursday. The boat was bound for Oregon Inlet when it began taking on water off Cape Hatteras.
The Coast Guard had launched a helicopter and another aircraft to save the boaters, but let the people board the merchant vessel, ITB Philadelphia, said Coast Guard petty officer Harry Craft.
The boaters were en route to St. Croix on the vessel Thursday night. He said the Coast Guard would have picked them up if they decided not to continue.
The boaters' 55-foot power fishing boat, based in Virginia Beach, began taking on water Thursday afternoon in 10-foot seas about 50 miles east of Cape Hatteras, Craft said. KEYWORDS: RESCUE
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