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26 U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary District 7 Breeze JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—Most people watching the 2011 Naval Air Station Jacksonville Air Show on November 4, 5, and 6 had their eyes on the sky, anticipating the performance of the Navy’s precision flight team, the Blue Angels. Team Coast Guard, however, had eyes on the sky and eyes on the water. The Coast Guard led the “on the water” team of Navy, local law enforcement, and Auxiliary vessels enforcing the security zone on the St. Johns River for the flight path of the Angels as they approached the air station’s runway and its cheering crowds. Jacksonville is a boating community, with the St. Johns River, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Intracoastal Waterway nearby. Watching the air show from the water is a boating tradition. For precision flying, the Blue Angels require a flight path approaching the runway free of visual distractions. Therefore the Navy asked the Coast Guard to place enough buoys to create an approximately two mile by twomile security zone in front of the runway. During both the Friday practice day and the two public show days, private boats were to be kept out of this zone. While it sounds like a simple task, the security zone restricts boater access to about 20 percent of the width of river, including the side opposite the fly zone, where boaters like to anchor to watch the air show. The most direct route to where boaters want to be is, of course, through the security zone; therefore, Team Coast Guard and local law enforcement stayed busy rerouting boating traffic around the security zone. The duty was not without its perks, however, as the edge of the security zone was also the direct flight path for the approach of the Blue Angels’ precision maneuvers. It may have been our imaginations, but those of us who work on the security patrols always feel that the Blue Angels show their appreciation by flying over our patrol vessels. Team Coast Guard vessels supporting the show included a 25-foot Response Boat from Station Mayport and Auxiliary facilities from Jacksonville Flotilla 14-8 and St. Augustine Flotilla 14-7. In addition to supporting the security zone, Team Coast Guard created a boating safety display at the Air Show. Coast Guard recruiters and members from Jacksonville 14- 8, Arlington 14-2, St. Augustine 14-7 and Green Cove Springs 14-5 staffed the display.Ω Auxiliary support for the Jacksonville Airshow included d maintaining safety zones under the Blue Angels’ flight path, as well as staffing a Recreaonal Boang Safety booth at the show. Top: Kyle George and Whit Vick from 14-8 aboard ard the Auxiliary facility Carly II helped ed maintain safety zones. Photo o by Cris Vonderheide. Boom: (From le) John Hadley 14-8, Kevin Koehl 14-8, HSC Thomson, USCG, Bob Strong 14-8, ET1 Bound, USCG, in front of the Recreaonal Boang Safety booth at the Jacksonville Air Show. Photo by Marlene Koehl
Volume LVIII Issue 1 Spring 2012 27 WEST ANDROS ISLAND, Bahamas – On January 7, 2012 at 12:10 PM, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliarists, Robert “Marvin” Dailey, Pilot, and Daniel Ochsenschlager, Aircrew, were conducting a Maritime Observation Mission over the Cay Sal bank south of Anguilla Cay when they overheard a distress call from aircraft Cirrus N273EA reporting an inflight emergency. The pilot reported losing oil pressure and engine power on their single engine plane and approximately 2 miles west of Andros Island in the Bahamas. Tiger 6 Auxiliarists requested the position of the Cirrus plane, ascertained their problem as well as the number of persons and what type of safety equipment they carried. The pilot reported two persons, himself and one passenger, and reported having lifejackets and a raft on board. The Auxiliarists immediately relayed all this information to the Seventh Coast Guard District command center in Miami and a Search and Rescue was launched. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla. and a HC-144 Ocean Sentry fixedwing aircraft crew from Coast Guard Air Station Miami were deployed. The Navy’s Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) also assisted in the search for the downed aircraft. At approximately 12:30 p.m., the fixed-wing aircraft crew located the downed aircraft and its two passengers in an inflatable raft. Tiger 6 proceeded to the plane crash area and arrived at about the same time as the Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopter and the Ocean Sentry aircraft. The Auxiliarists were assured that their assistance was not needed and returned back to their original assigned patrol. The rescue helicopter crew arrived on scene at 12:58 p.m. and safely hoisted the two survivors onto the aircraft and transferred them to Odyssey Airport in Nassau, Bahamas for further transport to Emergency Medical Services crew for medical evaluation. The couple, from Birmingham, Alabama, were not injured in the crash. Thanks to the assistance of Robert “Marvin” Dailey and Daniel Ochsenschlager, members of the Auxiliary Air Program (AUXAIR) who relayed the downed aircraft information to the District 7 Coast Guard Command Center in Miami, these two lives were saved. Ω Above: The occupants of the downed aircra await rescue in the ra. The open chute no doubt aided in locang the couple in a vast sea of blue. Below: Robert “Marvin” Dailey and Daniel Ochsenschlager, members of the Auxiliary Air Program (AUXAIR) pose next to Tiger-6. The author thanks Auxiliarist J.J. Samuelson, AAC, Air Staon Miami for his assistance in providing the Incident Report as well as the Tiger-6 crew photo and related informaon.
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