Crying shame. Hope she survives.
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Ship Battered By Waves Off Oxnard Coast
No Injuries Reported
POSTED: 5:07 pm PST March 21, 2005
UPDATED: 7:54 am PST March 22, 2005
OXNARD, Calif. -- The Coast Guard continues working to free a two-masted sailing ship that ran aground near a rock jetty off Oxnard on Monday.
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The ship carried 20 crew members and students, all of whom were brought to shore in dramatic rescues after the ship became stuck in a sandbar.
Rough surf knocked at least four people off the boat into the 58-degree water. They were picked up by rescue workers. One by one, the rest of the people on the ship jumped off, wearing life jackets. They also were picked up by rescuers.
Three of the passengers were taken to area hospitals for treatment of hypothermia. The rest received food and clothing from the Red Cross.
The rescue effort was broadcast live on NBC4.
The vessel was identified as the Irving Johnson, a brigantine completed in 2003 for the Los Angeles Maritime Institute's TopSail Youth Program. The boat was being used for a seven-day team-building trip through the Channel Islands by students from the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, said Laura Trulson, the institute's education director.
Ten students and 10 crew were aboard the boat, she said.
The vessel is 90 feet long, with 4,450 square feet of sail, a rigging height of nearly 88 feet and a diesel engine. The sails were furled during the rescue northwest of Los Angeles.
After the students and crew members were rescued, a rescue boat tugged on the vessel with a tow line, straining to pull it bow-first into the waves, but the vessel turned sideways to the waves, which crashed over its decks. The surf eventually turned the abandoned ship bow first toward land, pushing it in and out of the shallows along the rocks
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