Seafarer Honored for Risking Life in 24-Foot Waves to Save Drowning Man
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Seafarers (SIU) member John Dacuag put the extensive safety and rescue training he received from the union’s training center in Piney Point, Md., to good use in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and a typhoon when he jumped into the 24-foot seas to rescue a crewman from a sunken ship.
For his heroic efforts, Dacuag was awarded the Coast Guard’s Gold Lifesaving Medal, the Coast Guard’s highest civilian award, in a Honolulu ceremony late last month.
Dacuag was sailing aboard the U.S.-flagged cargo ship the Horizon Falcon in July 2007, when the ship received a distress call from another cargo vessel, the Hai Tong No. 7, which was about 375 miles northwest of Guam. The Horizon Falcon changed course and steamed toward the Hai Tong several hundred miles away.
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