Oops, we missed the harbor

Four people were rescued from a commercial fishing boat early Friday morning after it ran aground just south of Ventura Harbor, authorities said.

Ventura City Fire Department and Harbor Patrol employees watch over the beached Saigon 1 on Friday. The accident is being investigated.

After receiving a report at 2:33 a.m. about the incident one-quarter mile south of the harbor, firefighters and Harbor Patrol officers found the 40-foot fishing boat taking on water in the surf. Four people were on the boat, which was about 100 feet from shore, Ventura City Fire Department officials said.
Rescue swimmers from the Ventura Harbor Patrol and the Ventura City Fire Department helped all four people off the boat and walked them safely through the waves to shore, said Battalion Chief Matt Brock of the Fire Department. No injuries were reported.
The U.S. Coast Guard was looking into the reasons the boat ran aground.
The boat, a Long Beach-based vessel named the Saigon 1, was on its way to Ventura Harbor from the Santa Barbara area with a cargo of shrimp, Fire Department officials said.