Overview
- Police body-camera footage released Saturday shows Essex crews pulling two brothers and a small dog from frigid water after their sailboat ran aground Friday night.
- The 30-foot Jenny Lee sent a distress beacon at 8:12 p.m., which the U.S. Coast Guard relayed to regional dispatch and set off a search near Coffins Beach.
- Responders launched a 14-foot flatbottom skiff and a drone, then found the 28- and 30-year-old wading in chest-deep water with the dog floating in a plastic tote.
- Both went to a hospital for hypothermia, and one was carried about 250 yards through sand dunes to reach ambulances before officials reported stable condition.
- Officials said the water was about 48 degrees and one man's core temperature was 93, and they credited life vests and multi-agency training with the successful rescue.