Coast Guard rescue teams had to use a helicopter to rescue a man from a sailboat which ran aground in the Channel Islands during rough seas.
The man was on board a boat anchored off of Santa Cruz Island early Monday morning. He sent out a distress call after the craft apparently started dragging its anchor towards shore in rough seas.
A Coast Guard rescue boat reached the scene, but rough seas broke the sailboat's anchor line, sending it aground in a cove. It was too dangerous for the rescue boat to enter.
A Coast Guard helicopter out of Point Mugu then airlifted the man off the sailboat. He was uninjured.
