The Coast Guard shared news of the rescue on its social media page: “Air Station Traverse City hoisted 4 children from a rock offshore Black Beach Trailhead at 2:10 a.m.,” the military said. “AIRSTA MH-60 crew arrived, then hoisted 4 people from the rock and transferred them to awaiting EMS in a field near the scene.”

A Navy pilot was rescued after ejecting from a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet, like the one pictured here, off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday morning.