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Article: Capt. Hook gets a hand.
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- Coast Guard Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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On the clear, crisp morning of Dec. 17, 2007, the crewmembers of the CGC George Cobb helped load an 1,100-pound sea lion, named Captain Hook, onto the deck of the buoy tender. Their mission was to transport him 60 miles off the coast of California to a sea lion habitat near San Clemente Island.
The crew worked with the members of the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, whose staff and volunteers originally rescued the sea lion in October near Newport Beach. This would be the first of two rescues for Captain Hook, who earned the nickname because he had more than 70 hooks and lines attached to him when rescued. He then spent about a month at the center where a ...