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A US Navy P-3C Orion crew helped rescue two men stranded at sea when a small, incapacitated motorboat was located approximately 200 miles southwest of Costa Rica on 16 March. The crew from Patrol Squadron 4 (VP-4), known as the Skinny Dragons, was conducting routine operations when crew members spotted the boaters. The aircrew contacted the nearby merchant vessel Tauranga Star and then vectored the ship towards the boat. The Orion crew stayed on scene until the merchant vessel arrived and took the two mariners on board. The mariners were taken to a Panamanian hospital and then released. VP-4, based at MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, was deployed to El Salvador in support of US Southern Command at the time of the rescue.
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