Video provided by Maria N Damian Wallace.

UPDATE, 4 p.m.:

Public Affairs specialist Jeffrey Henon of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tells the Outpost that both of the boat’s crew members were taken hospital and have since been released with no reported injuries.

The boat was recovered from the surf and is currently on its way back to North Bend Oregon.

The man rescued from the boat was officially trapped in an air pocket for 25 minutes before rescuers pulled him to safety.

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A man was narrowly rescued from a flooded U.S. Army Corps of Engineers survey vessel after it capsized off the Harbor Oregon coast this morning, just south of Brookings.

Harbor resident Noah Bruce told the Outpost this afternoon that the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers boat named “Graham,” capsized around 11 a.m. while surveying the shoreline.

“Every year they dredge the harbor, so this guy was surveying pretty close along the shoreline and he just got caught by a set of waves,” Bruce said. “Some sneaker waves came in. It was really calm, but every once in a while there’s a set.”

Bruce said that one of the ships passengers swam to safety, but another remained trapped in the hull for upwards of 30 minutes as the ship began to sink into the sand.

“He was underwater for 20 to 30 minutes, but there was air in the hull of the boat in the front hatch. Somehow he found air in there,” Bruce said. “They drug the boat to shore and they heard him pounding [inside]. The tail of the boat flipped over and slowly started going deeper and created that 45 degree angle [seen in the photos], which allowed them to access the hatch and get the guy out of there.”

Video of the rescue obtained by the Outpost shows the man being pulled to safety, narrowly walking away from the wreckage.

The Outpost reached out to the Portland District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and are awaiting a call back from their spokesperson. We will update when we learn more.