Video Release: Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel near Cold Bay, Alaska

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 11/09/2017 07:19 PM EST

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Nov. 9, 2017
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 Video Release: Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel near Cold Bay, Alaska

 

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KODIAK, Alaska -- A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and crew transported a 21-year-old man from the 154-foot fishing vessel Defender 260 miles north of Cold Bay, Alaska, Nov. 9, 2017. The man was struck in the head by a 37-pound block of frozen fish sustaining injuries and was taken to St. Paul, Alaska, where he was further taken to Anchorage by commercial medical services. (U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Kodiak).

Read more details about the medevac here:
Coast Guard medevacs man from fishing vessel near Cold Bay, Alaska news release.