Video Release: Coast Guard medevacs man from Navy ship 160 miles off Cape Hatteras, NC

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 07/22/2017 10:00 PM EDT

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July 22, 2017
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Video Release: Coast Guard medevacs man from Navy ship 160 miles off Cape Hatteras, NC

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, medevacs an ailing 60-year-old man from a 192-foot U.S. Navy offshore supply ship 160 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, July 22, 2017. The ship’s master reported that the crew member had been found unconscious, was revived with an automated external defibrillator and had a weak pulse. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Elizabeth City/Released)

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PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a U.S. Navy supply vessel 160
miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, Saturday.

At 3:05 p.m. on Friday, watchstanders in the 5th Coast Guard District Command Center in
Portsmouth received notification from the Navy vessel NAWC 38 that a 60-year-old male crew
member was in need of medical care 400 miles southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina.

The ship’s master reported that the man had been found unconscious, was revived with an
automated external defibrillator and had a weak pulse.

Command Center watchstanders directed the crew of the 192-foot offshore supply vessel to
transit to a rendezvous point closer to shore and communicated hourly with the ship’s medical
personnel.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched from Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, at
8:00 a.m. today and met the NAWC 38 about 160 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras at 9:50 a.m.

The helicopter crew then hoisted the man and transported him to Wilmington International
Airport by noon, where EMS personnel transferred him to New Hanover Regional Medical
Center in Wilmington.

“We were able to deliver this man to the medical care he needed due to diligent
communications and teamwork with the crew aboard the Navy ship,” said Coast Guard Petty
Officer 1st Class Travis Unser, operational unit controller for the case. “We hope for the man’s
full medical recovery.”

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