Help select the Coast Guard video of the year

In 2010 the Coast Guard sent nine cutters to help earthquake victims in Haiti, saved 4,300 lives in more than 22,000 search and rescue missions and also tended to more mundane tasks, such as maintaining buoys and lighthouses to aid navigation.

To honor the personnel who perform these missions, the Coast Guard is running a Video of the Year Contest, with a field of 11 videos selected from more than 600 submitted by service members. YOU can help select the winner by voting on the contest website between now and January 10.

I'm voting for the video that features rescue swimmer Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Warner, from the Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., who rescued two elderly people from a disabled sailboat last August.

Warner gives new meaning to the word swimmer -- he seems to move faster than Flipper after he jumps into the water and zooms to the disabled boat.