From Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, the busy Lake Michigan Coast Guard crews rescued or assisted six people and one dog in three separate emergencies. At 7:15 p.m., Tuesday, a watchstander at Coast Guard Station Milwaukee was contacted via cell phone by a man who reported his boat was sinking in Lake Michigan three miles east of Milwaukee with two other people aboard. A rescue boatcrew aboard a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium launched from the station. When the RB-M crew arrived on scene, the boat had capsized and a good Samaritan had rescued two of the people. The RB-M crew rescued the third person and took the two others from the good Samaritan's boat and transported them all to shore. A commercial salvor recovered the boat and towed it to safety.