Coast Guard Rescue Team Medevacs Fisherman

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A rescue team from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay medevaced a fisherman from a vessel 60 miles southeast of Martha’s Vineyard Friday evening

A rescue team from Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod in Buzzards Bay medevaced a fisherman from a vessel 60 miles southeast of Martha’s Vineyard Friday evening.

According to a press release from the Coast Guard first district, watchstanders received a call at 6 p.m. from the crew of the commercial fishing vessel Persistence saying one of their fellow crew members was displaying stroke-like symptoms and needed medical assistance.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter was deployed from the station in Buzzards Bay and successfully hoisted the 50-year-old fishermen from Persistence to the helicopter at 7:30 p.m. The injured fisherman was transported to Providence Hospital for care, the report says.

Followup information was not immediately available from the Coast Guard Monday.

— Aaron Wilson

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Lorraine Edgartown

Indeed, thank you Coast Guard. I have been in the circumstance of needing them offshore and when one sees those boats and planes with the beautiful coloring and those wonderful first responders there is nothing like it. A debt to them from me.

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