U.S. Coast Guard

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This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows the HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy, approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard rescued 14 of the 16 crew members by helicopter. Hours later, rescuers found one of the missing crew members, but she was unresponsive and later was declared dead. They are still searching for the captain. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski)

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In this July 7, 2010, photo, the tall ship HMS Bounty sails on Lake Erie off Cleveland. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 14 members of the crew forced to abandon the ship, which was caught in Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina. The Coast Guard is searching for two other crew members. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)

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** FILE ** The tall ship HMS Bounty sails on Lake Erie off Cleveland in July 2010. The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued 14 members of the crew forced to abandon after being caught in Hurricane Sandy off North Carolina on Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. The Coast Guard is searching for two other crew members. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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This framegrab image provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows one of three crew members from the yacht Low Speed Chase being rescued from the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco on Saturday April 14, 2012, by the U.S. Coast Guard. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard)

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The U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Healy guides the Russian tanker Renda closer to the fuel transfer mooring point off Nome, Alaska, on Saturday, Jan. 14, 2012. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Charly Hengen)

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U.S. Coast Guard boat patrols near the space shuttle Endeavour at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Saturday, May 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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Rear Admiral Paul Zukunft of the U.S. Coast Guard, left, Lieutenant General Richard Y. Newton III of the U.S. Air Force, Vice Admiral Michael Vitale of the U.S. Navy, Lieutenant General Terry G. Robling of the U.S. Marine Corps, and Major General Karl Horst of the U.S. Army throw out the first pitches before the Washington Nationals Atlanta Braves opening day baseball game at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 31, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr/The Washington Times)

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A U.S. Coast Guard vessel searches for survivors in an area believed to be the crash site of a Puerto Rico National Guard helicopter in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2010. The chopper crashed Monday into the ocean after returning from a drug raid, with all six people aboard feared dead, officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/El Nuevo Dia, Dennis M. Rivera Pichardo)

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U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Paul Zukunft (right) and an unidentified officer inspect shrimp on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2010. Plaquemines Parish government received special permission from Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries to troll for shrimp and inspect the catch. (AP Photo/P.J. Hahn)

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** FILE ** The U.S. Coast Guard (left) and the Mason County Sheriff's Office (right) search the waters of Lake Michigan after a medical transport plane carrying five people to the Mayo Clinic crashed into the lake on Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Daily News, Andy Klevorn)

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President Obama talks about the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday, June 14, 2010, at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Gulfport, Miss. At the far end of the table are (from left) Carol M. Browner, White House climate and energy adviser; U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander; Mr. Obama; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour; Mr. Barbour's wife, Marsha; and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)