A crewman who suffered an apparent heart attack on board a cable-laying ship offshore Oregon was medevaced to safety by a US Coast Guard (USCG) helicopter.
According to the USCG website command centre, watchstanders in Seattle received a notification from Rescue Coordination Center France personnel that a crew member on the 469-foot, French-flagged, cable-laying vessel Rene Descartes (8,208 dwt, built 2002) was experiencing heart attack symptoms while the ship was 80 miles west of Coos Bay, Oregon.
An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Station North Bend, Oregon, safely transferred the 55-year-old Frenchman to emergency medical personnel who in turn took him to Bay Area Hospital in Coos Bay.
