WOODS HOLE, Mass. – A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was able to save the life of a person who was stranded in the Atlantic off the coast of Massachusetts as a powerful and deadly nor’easter raged across New England on Monday.

According to Falmouth Fire Rescue in Massachusetts, Falmouth police and fire crews responded to a water rescue near Juniper Point in Woods Hole around 3:30 p.m. after crew members aboard a Steamship Authority Ferry, which provides service to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket , spotted a person in the ocean .

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Crew members attempted to help the unidentified person by tossing a life ring into the water, but those efforts were unsuccessful.

Because of the extreme weather conditions due to the nor’easter, first responders immediately called the Coa

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