Coast Guardsman Honored for Dramatic Cutting-Torch Rescue

Petty Officer Saved Captain and Crewman Trapped in Capsized Tug

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Chad Rollins, a machinery technician at Station Sabine, uses two crescent wrenches to pry open a hole in the hull of the sinking tugboat Sea Cypress at the mouth of the Sabine Pass Channel, March 31, 2023. After the trapped captain of the tugboat used a handheld torch to cut a hole in the hull, Rollins widened the hol…