A US Coast Guard helicopter crew performed a medical evacuation to lift a severely burned crew member from a container ship off of southern California.
The man on the 738-foot Isla Bella (45,000 dwt, built 2015) had suffered burns on his legs from spilled cooking oil.
The medevac operation occurred with the vessel close to Santa Rosa Island, the second largest of California’s Channel Islands, off the Santa Barbara coast.
It went smoothly and the 46-year-old man was airlifted by the MH-65D Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Los Angeles to Santa Barbara airport where he was transferred to the care of emergency medical services, who took him to hospital.
