Watch: 30-foot waves, gale-force winds leave solo mariner stranded off Oregon coast

Watch: 30-foot waves, gale-force winds leave solo mariner stranded off Oregon coast

Video captures the intense moment a 74-year-old solo mariner is saved nearly 500 miles off the Oregon coast last Tuesday. After sustaining a broken shoulder while navigating fierce 30-foot seas and gale-force winds that snapped his mast and disabled his vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard and a nearby cruise ship teamed up for the rescue.