Article: USN: USS Warrior crew aid boating accident victims

M2 PRESSWIRE-7 August 1998-USN: USS Warrior crew aid boating accident victims (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (NNS) -- Eight Sailors from Mine Countermeasures Rotational Crew Delta, embarked in USS Warrior (MCM 10), recently rescued four Walterboro, S.C., men after their ski boat rammed a metal breakwater on the Cooper River at former Naval Base Charleston, S.C.

All four were injured, two seriously, in the 10 p.m. accident which partially sank the boat.

"We were in the right place at the right time," said Chief Boatswain's Mate (SW) John Valdez. Valdez, other Sailors and several students from the U.S. Border Patrol ...

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