Two men and dog rescued from sailboat by NPS and @USPP_SFFO. One man was arrested for outstanding warrants. pic.twitter.com/XEFBEs1aic
— Golden Gate NRA (@GoldenGateNPS) September 28, 2015
Two men and a dog are safe today, after the sailboat they were in started having problems just off San Francisco's Ocean Beach.
According to National Park Service spokesperson Alexandra Picavet, a man from San Francisco, a man from Texas, and a dog with unknown origins were on a 36-foot sailboat Monday when it fell into distress. All three of them were rescued by National Park Service Rangers and officers from the U.S. Park Police, she says, and were uninjured in the incident.
KRON4 reports that San Francisco fire fighters, police and Coast Guard were also on the scene, as the boat, called the "Sea Bee," was "stuck on beach in a few feet of water...moving with the tide as it goes in and out."
More intriguingly, Picavet says that the San Francisco man on the Sea Bee "was arrested by NPS Rangers for outstanding warrants not related to this boat incident." A call to Picavet with questions on the nature of the warrant was not returned at publication time.
According to KRON4, which had a helicopter above the scene, "a man in handcuffs" could be seen "sitting up against a Park Police officer’s vehicle."
"The officer [was] holding the dog," they report.
As of Monday evening, the Sea Bee remained on Ocean Beach. According to Picavet, "the NPS is working to safely remove the boat" and expects to get it off the beach today.