Local News in Brief : Four Boaters Rescued
Four boaters were rescued from two distressed craft in separate incidents between Santa Catalina Island and Long Beach, authorities said Tuesday.
In the first incident, three young men test-driving a 15-foot pleasure boat were rescued by a Panama-registered merchant ship after the small boat’s transmission failed and left them adrift, Coast Guard officials said Tuesday.
James Guardino, 22, of Paramount, skipper of the small boat, Shawn Walker, 18, and John O’Connor, 17, were taken aboard the Emanuel B about 10 p.m. Monday after one of the bulk carrier’s crewmen spotted an emergency flare fired by the trio, said Brad Smith, a Coast Guard spokesman.
Smith said the trio left Avalon Harbor at 9 a.m. Monday and “were on their way to Long Beach when they had transmission failure and went adrift.”
In the second incident, a man who jumped from his 38-foot cabin cruiser after it caught fire Tuesday morning was rescued by the crew of a passing USC research boat.
The boater, Frank Domino of Los Angeles, was pulled from a life raft.
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