Imagery available: Coast Guard boat crew medically evacuates ill crewmember off of commercial fishing vessel near Brookings, Ore.

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 10/10/2018 09:07 PM EDT

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Coast Guard crew medically evacuates ill fishing vessel crewmember off Oregon Coast

The crew aboard the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Ocean prepares to launch its small boat to deliver an ill crewmember to an awaiting boat crew aboard a Coast Guard 47-foot Motor Life Boat from Station Chetco River 10 miles west of Brookings, Ore., Oct. 10, 2018. A boat crew from the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Ocean gets underway to deliver an ill crewmember to a Coast Guard boat crew aboard a 47-foot Motor Life Boat from Station Chetco River 10 miles off the coast of Brookings, Ore., Oct. 10, 2018.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Carlos Sosa, a coxswain aboard a 47-foot Motor Life Boat from Station Chetco River maneuvers the MLB back to port after his crew medically evacuated an ill crewmember off the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Ocean 10 miles west of Brookings, Ore., Oct. 10, 2018. A boat crew aboard a 47-foot Motor life Boat from Station Chetco River returns to its base after medically evacuating an ill engineer off the commercial fishing vessel Alaska Ocean 10 miles west of Brookings, Ore., Oct. 10, 2018.

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BROOKINGS, Ore. — The Coast Guard medically evacuated an ill crewmember off a commercial fishing vessel 10 miles west of Brookings, Wednesday afternoon.

A boat crew aboard a 47-foot Motor Life Boat from Station Chetco River safely conducted the medevac of the 59-year-old chief engineer aboard the fishing vessel Alaska Ocean, and transported him to shore for further medical care.

Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector North Bend received notification of the ill engineer from a crewmember aboard the Alaska Ocean at 1:56 p.m. The engineer reportedly suffered a sudden loss of vision and anxiety. The sector’s flight surgeon recommended an immediate medevac, so the 47-foot MLB crew was launched to assist.

The current condition of the ill man is unknown at this time.

The Alaska Ocean can continue to operate as it had another crewmember holding a chief engineer certification aboard the vessel.

 

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