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welcome back to the channel welcome back to a 5-Minute-Friday now if you've not seen
5-Minute-Friday this is a a series of videos that we used to do back in the day before
the Ukrainian war and all of the ensuing sagas with the sanctions and stuff like that I want
to try and bring it back because it's a bit more relaxing for Friday we've got a very interesting
story about a yacht that was completely wiped out but The story goes deeper than that and what has
it got to do with The Goonies the film from the 1980s we're going to get into all of that right
now all right so let's do just that and put 5 minutes on the screen and let's go okay so you
may have seen this footage already it was quite weirdly shown on on a lot of websites and they
tell a story about how a rescue swimmer pulls a guy out of the water or he's in the process
of doing that when you see what happens to this boat the U.S Coast Guard it was attempting to
rescue a man out of the Columbia river which does not look like a river to me and now it's in the
it's in the northwest of the US and the northwest coast guards involved and the Columbia River if
you don't if you're not from the US you don't know it's connected to the Pacific Ocean so it is has
very treacherous weather is actually known as the graveyard of the Pacific which is a lovely lovely
title isn't it anyway this yacht is a 10 meter or 35 foot yacht I believe it's a Sandpiper yacht
was in this rough weather the search and rescue received a Mayday from The Vessel
and they were on scene pretty quickly now you can see initially the rescue starts off with 2
search and rescue vessels but they deem it to be far too treacherous to try to go alongside
and rescue this man from the boat so they call in a helicopter now the helicopter just happened
to be in the area doing training exercises when they got the call so they were there very quickly
normally they would they would winch down a man and pull the person from the boat right from the
deck but they they said it was too dangerous so they decided to put a rescue swimmer in the
water and you can see in the footage here the rescue swimmer is swimming towards the boat he
almost gets there and you can see the Mariner who we thought was a Marin at the beginning it
turns out he was not a mariner but he stood on the stern of the vest on there and then this happens
so the boat is completely thrown across rolls three or four times
looks like nobody could survive that right but not only does the rescue swimmer survive unheard
but he still manages to get to the Mariner and puts him in the basket and winches into safety
now we don't know this footage here shows a man getting Winston two guys given high fives
we don't know if that is actually connected to the original footage because on the Coast Guard
search and rescue website they don't show that footage at all so it might have been because we
got this footage from somebody else and they might have added that to embellish the video
now what's interesting about this is this happened on the 3rd of February by the way
initially they believed this man was the owner of the vessel why why would you not think that right
but after the Coast Guard shared footage on this social media of this rescue the local
police recognized the yacht to be a vessel that had been previously reported stolen so the man was
then taken into custody this is the man that they rescued out of the water he was taken into custody
and he was charged with theft a criminal mischief endangering another person an unauthorized use of
a vehicle at the same time or just prior to this happening a a house that was featured in the 1980s
movie The Goonies was vandalized by somebody by dumping dead fish onto the porch of the house
now what has that got to do with this yacht well the the man who was wanted by the police and the
man who was rescued from this what turned out to be stolen yacht turned out to be the same
man and his name was Jericho Labonte now so he vandalizes this house or the porch of this
house and then he steals a yacht and he heads out into the Columbia river that whole rescue ensues
because of what he's doing right that's why he's being charged with putting people in danger
because the rescue swimmer has put in danger but what a strange turn of events that story
took a weird turn didn't it but luckily nobody was injured or nobody was seriously injured but one of
the things that I found funny was the article that we took this from was an MSN article they
asked the the rescue swimmer and he said he had no regrets like you know like oh well he stole
the yacht so he should have just let him die so I thought that was quite funny but yep regardless
the man the rescue swimmer said he was happy to have saved somebody's life I will put links to
the Coast Guard Instagram page and stuff like that below if you want to go and check it out all right
so I'm going to leave it there I hope we didn't blow through our five minutes but it looks like
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all right guys I'm going to leave it there I hope you have a great weekend I've got a video
coming out of super hot news video coming out over the weekend so stay tuned for that also,
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