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On Saturday, Dec. 27, U.S. Coast Guard officers from Sitka, Alaska, rescued two boaters when their boat ran aground.

According to Military.com, both the man and woman in the 17-foot boat were thrown from the skiff during the accident. While the female passenger was unharmed, the man was injured on his head and face. The event occurred about 10 miles south of Sitka, right by Kanga Bay. 

Marine Link reported that after the couple was ejected from the small boat it drifted away and left them stranded. Emergency operators in the Sitka region received a call on behalf of the couple around 10 p.m., noted Military.com. Both a Sitka Fire Department ship and a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter deployed from Air Station Sitka in search of the stranded boaters. They were taken into the helicopter and rushed to a hospital in Sitka, where they received care. 

Though it is still not clear what the cause of the incident was, officers view the rescue as a success. 

"This case was a good demonstration of the collective effort between the Coast Guard and Sitka Fire and Rescue to effectively combine our skills and assets in order to render assistance to these mariners,"  Lt. Jason Condon, Jayhawk pilot, Air Station Sitka, stated in a Coast Guard release.