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The Coast Guard's team of ASTs is composed of about 350 active-duty members, and just over 1000 members have passed the training to become Helicopter Rescue Swimmers since the mid-1980s. The training school has one of the highest attrition rates of any military school with about 80% of candidates failing to complete the program.
Aviation Survival Technician (AST) is a rating or job specialty in the United States Coast Guard. Rescue swimmer is the collateral duty or aircrew position of the AST. They are trained at the U.S. Coast Guard's enlisted Aviation Survival Technician/Rescue Swimmer school at Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center, Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
In total 99 helicopters, optimised for the USCG's search and rescue role tasks and given the designation HH-65A Dolphin, were acquired. Unlike the HH-52, the HH-65A is not able to perform water landings. [1] The HH-65 normally carries a crew of four: Pilot, Copilot, Flight Mechanic and Rescue Swimmer.
Whether he's jumping out of a helicopter into the Atlantic Ocean to rescue boaters and swimmers in trouble, flying on a training mission along the East Coast or fixing and mending his water gear ...
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew was sent in to take part in the rescue around 4:45 p.m. local time, the Coast Guard said. Related: Man and Dog Rescued by Coast Guard as Sailboat Sinks Off ...
Salerno told reporters Friday that a Coast Guard helicopter located the wreckage and lowered two rescue swimmers to investigate. They saw three people inside the plane who appeared to be dead.
Ben Randall is the top rescue swimmer at the United States Coast Guard's Aviation Survival Technician (AST) program, but the long hours have destroyed his marriage. When on a rescue, Ben loses his team in a HH-60J Jayhawk helicopter crash at sea.
A swimmer being lowered during the rescue mission near San Juan Islands in Washington State on Feb. 3, 2025 Footage showed the swimmer being lowered to the sailboat in a harness.