BOSTON — A Coast Guard rescue crew medically evacuated a 47-year-old man from a fishing trawler approximately 40 miles east of Chatham, Mass., at 10:45 p.m., Saturday.
Watchstanders from the Coast Guard Sector Southeastern New England Command Center received a distress call from the 75-foot trawler Destiny at 6:33 p.m. Saturday, requesting assistance for a male suffering from heart attack-like symptoms.
The Destiny was directed to meet a rescue crew from Coast Guard Station Chatham, Mass., near Chatham Harbor.
Due to weather conditions, Station Chatham was unable to conduct a shipboard medevac and a Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter crew was launched to complete the medevac.
The MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter rescue crew transferred the 47-year-old man to awaiting Emergency Medical Services for further transfer to Hyannis Hospital.
“When conducting a medevac the patient’s well-being is of the upmost importance,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Seth Caron, an operation unit controller at Sector Southeastern New England Command Center.
