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Posts on ‘May 24th, 2008’

Air crew hoists injured crewmember from container ship

BOSTON- A Coast Guard air crew hoisted an injured crewmember from a Marshall Island’s-flagged container ship about 300 miles southeast of Nantucket, Mass., at about 1 p.m., today.
Around 10 a.m., Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound received a call a requesting medevac from the MSC Bali for a crewmember who had suffered a head injury [...]

Coast Guard medevaced young man from river bank

HOUSTON- The Coast Guard medevaced a young man off the San Jacinto River bank, today after the water tube he was on reportedly capsized throwing him into the river.
At approximately 4:30 p.m. a dispatch operator from the Hermann Memorial Hospital contacted the Coast Guard requesting assistance, stating that the 19-year-old young man had reportedly lost [...]

Coast Guard medevacs 60-year-old man

PHILADELPHIA – The Coast Guard medevaced a 60-year-old man today who was suffering a heart attack aboard a 31-foot boat six miles northwest of Cape May Inlet, N.J.
The Coast Guard received a call at 5:46 p.m. reporting a man aboard Reel Time was suffering a heart attack and crewmembers were perfroming cardiopulminory resuscitation.
Rescue boat crews [...]