Registered emergency beacons prove essential to rescue efforts
![An Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducts a hoist of one of two mariners approximately 288 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 2, 2020. The two sailors were aboard the 37-foot sailing vessel Rhapsody when it became disabled due to an engine room fire and activated their emergency position-indicating radio beacon for rescuers to locate them. (Image credit: U.S. Coast Guard) An Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducts a hoist of one of two mariners approximately 288 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 2, 2020. The two sailors were aboard the 37-foot sailing vessel Rhapsody when it became disabled due to an engine room fire and activated their emergency position-indicating radio beacon for rescuers to locate them.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2021/Jan/CGRescue-1-2-20.jpg?itok=nh03bnPM)
An Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducts a hoist of one of two mariners approximately 288 miles east southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 2, 2020. The two sailors were aboard the 37-foot sailing vessel Rhapsody when it became disabled due to an engine room fire and activated their emergency position-indicating radio beacon for rescuers to locate them. (Image credit: U.S. Coast Guard)