US Coast Guard (USCG) personnel on Thursday night airlifted a suspected heart-attack victim from a car carrier off the North Carolina coast, according to The Virginia Pilot’s website.
The man, a crew member on Norwegian car carrier Tijuca (30,089 dwt, built 2008), owned by Wilh. Wilhelmsen, is a 54-year-old Filipino who started having an episode while the ship was 30 miles south of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.
USCG rescue crew from the coast guard base Elizabeth City took the man off the 750-foot vessel by helicopter and flew him to Beaufort, North Carolina where local paramedics took him to the Craven Regional Medical Centre in New Bern, pilotonline.com reported.
