VIDEO AVAILABLE: Coast Guard medevacs man offshore New Orleans, Louisiana

U.S. Coast Guard sent this bulletin at 10/08/2019 09:37 PM EDT

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Coast Guard medevacs man offshore New Orleans, Louisiana


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NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard medevaced a man aboard a cruise ship 65 nautical miles off the coast of Venice, Louisiana, Tuesday.

Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a request at 1:14 a.m. for the medevac of a 23-year-old man with multiple significant injuries after he fell aboard the cruise ship Carnival Valor.

Sector watchstanders directed the launch of a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans to medevac the man.

The aircrew arrived on scene at 5:45 a.m., hoisted the man, and the ships doctor and transported them to New Orleans University Medical Hospital.

The man arrived in critical condition.

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