Firefighters and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued a woman who disappeared while swimming in the Bay in Sausalito this afternoon, according to fire officials.

The woman was swimming approximately 100 yards offshore from the 100 block of Bridgeway shortly before 12:30 p.m. today when she disappeared in the water, according to Mill Valley Fire Department Battalion Chief Michael St. John.

Watercraft from several fire departments and the U.S. Coast Guard worked with land-based crews on the shoreline in the search, and located the unresponsive woman in the water off of Alexander Avenue at 12:51 p.m., St. John said.

She was pulled from the water and taken to a nearby dock by a fire department jet ski, where she was stabilized before being transported to Marin General Hospital.

Crews from Marin County, Mill Valley and Tiburon as well as the Coast Guard assisted the Southern Marin Fire Protection District in the rescue.

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