ANOTHER DAY AT THE OFFICE FOR KODIAK JAYHAWK CREW
A Kodiak-based Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew medevaced a 63-year-old man from the 147-foot fishing vessel Blue Attu north of St. Paul, Alaska, Sunday, Nov. 18.
The Coast Guard’s 45-second video is here.
In bucking seas, the crew hoisted and transported a crew member with stroke-like symptoms from the vessel to awaiting Guardian emergency flight services personnel in St. Paul for further care and transport to Anchorage.
The Coast Guard released a statement:
Command center watchstanders directed an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter already in Cold Bay to transit to St. Paul. The watchtanders directed a Kodiak HC-130 Hercules aircrew to transit to St. Paul as well. A second MH-60 Jayhawk aircrew was sent from Kodiak to Cold Bay to be on stand-by.
Once in St. Paul, the Jayhawk aircrew refueled and embarked a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, who was brought to St. Paul via the HC-130 Hercules aircraft. Coast Guard Cutter Healy was in the vicinity of the medevac area, and after the Jayhawk aircrew took off from St. Paul, they re-fueled on board the Healy again before transiting to the Blue Attu to conduct the medevac. That crew was forced to abort the medevac due to unfavorable conditions.
May God Bless and watch over the men and women of our armed services to do this dangerous work and save lives.
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