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Wounded Lobsterman Medevaced near Cape Cope

Maritime Activity Reports, Inc.

August 30, 2016

(U.S. Coast Guard stock photo:  MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter)

(U.S. Coast Guard stock photo: MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter)

An injured lobsterman was medically evacuated by U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew Tuesday roughly 130 nautical miles east of Cape Cod.
 
At about 10:15 a.m., a crewmember aboard the lobster boat Eagle contacted watchstanders at the First Coast Guard District command center requesting assistance for a 41-year-old crewmember who had accidentally been impaled.
 
A Coast Guard flight surgeon recommended a medevac and Air Station Cape Cod launched an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter at about 11 a.m. The air crew arrived on scene, hoisted the man, and is currently in transit to Cape Cod Hospital.

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