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Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders received a distress call on VHF radio channel 16 around 11:13 a.m. from four men aboard a sinking 24-foot boat near Gandy Bridge.

A Station St. Petersburg boat crew recovered all four men next to their partially submerged and aground vessel and transported them to Gandy Boat Ramp. No injuries were reported, and the boat owner is coordinating vessel recovery.

Around 1 p.m., Sector St. Petersburg watchstanders were contacted by Pinellas County Sheriff's Office dispatch after a woman sustained a head injury while driving a personal watercraft near Shell Key.

A Station St. Petersburg boat crew embarked a Tierra Verde Fire Rescue crew while a St. Petersburg Fire Rescue crew retrieved the injured woman. The woman was transferred to Station St. Petersburg and Tierra Verde Fire Rescue crews, who provided first aid and transported her to EMS at Fort De Soto Boat Ramp for a higher level of care.