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My first patrol on my first Coast Guard ship, we boarded a decent sized coastal freighter. I am relying on memory but I'm pretty sure her name was D'mary, but it might have been "Dimeri" or something else phonetic. Couple hundred feet long. We find drugs and get the crew off but the ship isn't sea worthy. The captain decides to scuttle the ship as a hazard to navigation so a damage control crew goes over and cuts a few holes, opens the seacocks, etc. Only at that point does someone point out that the depth here is only a tens of feet, 40 or 50 I think. The ship is certainly taller than that. So we rapidly try to get her under tow, and pull the sinking vessel into deeper waters. It doesn't work, we ended up cutting the towline and having to file for a notice to mariners for the charted area. We passed by a few times in the remaining years and the captain always made sure to drive close enough to point out his own abject lesson in planning to new officers.
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