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Tejana Rescues Pacific Castaways

April 15, 2024
Texas native Lt. Chelsea Garcia led a Pacific rescue mission to save three castaways who used palm fronds to spell a giant “HELP” message on the beach.
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Three castaways stranded on a remote Micronesian island Pikelot were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and Australian authorities last week. Lieutenant Chelsea Garcia, who has Mexican and Indigenous heritage, led the mission as the search...
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Jenny, you get stranded on the island.
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What's the first thing you do?
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Our friendship depends on your answer.
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I would be like,
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so you're screaming help.
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You're screaming help to the coconut trees and the birds on the
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island. I don't know if there's any.
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Well, thank God,
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these three castaways that were stranded on a Pacific Island weren't there
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with you. Yo,
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home boys had to get rescued by the US Coast Guard last
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week. So the fellows were were fishing on their boat
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You feel me trying to catch some pecas?
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something happened and they got stranded on the island for
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a week and the boy survived off.
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Guess what, what do you think they survived off on the
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island? Iguana, Iguana,
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meat, coconuts, coconuts holding it down,
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man. The fellows wrote the word help with palm leaves on
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the beach like this right here.
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So they did what I did except I yelled it.
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Nah I would have put my number here because look,
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this is the photo all the news outlets are using.
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I would have put my number up there and been like not
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everybody got my number.
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It doesn't matter doesn't matter as long as they see that number
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when I'm on the news and they know I'm single and that
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I need somebody to rescue out of my real life,
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rescue me out of life.
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We're going on a rabbit hole.
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So Lieutenant Chelsea Garcia served as the rescue mission coordinator on
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the day of the rescue.
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She received help from coast Guard officials and Australian authorities to locate
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the castaways. It's crazy because she mentioned that dumb spelling
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help out on the beach.
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It was like pivotal to finding them.
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Really. Yeah, she was like,
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they probably would have never found them if they would have not
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spelled out help for real straight up.
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That's what I'm saying.
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I would put my number on that beach.
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Literally everybody would be calling me,
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you know, now think about it.
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I didn't have reception there,
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but eventually, yeah,
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but any who guys let's move on to our next story.