54ft F/V MT Tampa’s capsized
The 54-foot fishing vessel MT Tampa’s capsized off the coast of Rockaway Beach, Sunday evening.
An Coast Guard helicopter hoisted the four fishermen to safety and transported them to the helicopter landing pad at Station Tillamook Bay where they were transferred to local emergency medical technicians for further care and evaluation.
Command Center watchstanders at Sector Columbia River received a mayday call over VHF-FM channel 16 at 4:17 p.m. from the captain of the commercial fishing vessel MT Tamgas reporting that they were capsizing and the four crewmembers were abandoning ship into the vessel’s life raft.