US Coast Guard video shows the rescue of a South Carolina man on Thursday who had been missing at sea for 66 days.

The video shows the sailor being hoisted into a helicopter from the cargo ship that initially took him onboard.

The man, 37-year-old Louis Jordan, was spotted in his disabled boat some 200 miles (320 km) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and took him aboard.

Jordan is receiving treatment at a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, officials said.

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