First District Public Affairs
U.S. Coast Guard
News Release
U.S. Coast Guard crews airlift ill man near Gloucester (Video available)
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — U.S. Coast Guard crews airlifted a 51-year-old man from a charter fishing boat 18-miles east of Gloucester, Mass., Sunday, Sept. 5, 2010.
Coast Guard Sector Boston watchstanders received a report of a man experiencing heart-attack symptoms while fishing on the vessel Yankee Clipper at 10 a.m.
A Station Gloucester 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew transferred Gloucester Fire Department emergency medical service crews to the fishing vessel to aid the man at 11:14 a.m. He was hoisted to an HH-60 Jayhawk Rescue Helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod shortly after.
The rescue helicopter crew transported the man to emergency medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital at 12:10 p.m.
The man was reported to be in stable condition.
His name is not being released.
For more information on this release, please contact 1st Coast Guard District Public Affairs at (617) 406-9011.
Click the following link for video: http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php?g2_itemId=990795
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