DATE: February 26, 2008 1:11:58 PM CST
HOUSTON – As the sun the rises over the tarmac at Ellington Field, the crew of Air Station Houston rolls out an HH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter. Following a night of searching Galveston Bay for two missing men in a disabled boat, the crew prepares another aircraft as the ready search and rescue helicopter. The air crew members were part of an extensive search Monday night for two men in a 16-foot ski-boat in the waters around the Texas City Dike. The air crew located the two men and their ski-boat early Tuesday morning. A rescue boat crew form Coast Guard Station Galveston towed the ski-boat to the Texas City boat ramp. The crew and aircraft of Air Station Houston have responded to higher than normal amount of search and rescue cases in the past few months. With warmer weather on the horizon the number of search and rescues cases is expected to increase. U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer David Schuhlein.
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