Coast Guard 45-foot Response Boat-Medium file photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Amanda Levasseur
NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard medevaced a man near Destin, Florida, Sunday.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Station Destin received a distress call on VHF Channel 16 from a man on a personal watercraft suffering a shoulder injury near the Destin Jetties. Station Destin launched a 45-foot Response Boat–Medium boatcrew.
When the boatcrew arrived on scene they took the man aboard and placed the personal watercraft in tow and transferred the individual to Station Destin.
The individual was released to a relative.
