Archive image: A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk from Air Station San Diego performs a hoist operation with rescue basket during a SAR exercise.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen with Coast Guard Sector San Diego, Coast Guard 11th District (Pacific Southwest), participate in a search and rescue exercise with U.S. Marines with 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing near the coast of San Diego, California, Sept. 29, 2023.
Marines, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen executed a joint search and rescue drill to improve interservice coordination and validate procedures for real world search and rescue operations.
U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Jennifer Sanchez.
SAN DIEGO — A Coast Guard Air Station San Diego MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew conducts the medevac of a 56-year-old male passenger and a 77-year-old male passenger from a cruise ship approximately 13 nautical miles off the coast of San Diego Tuesday morning, January 30, 2024.
Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector San Diego Joint Harbor Operations Center received a distress call from the cruise ship, Navigator of the Seas, at approximately 7:50 a.m., reporting two passengers aboard needed medical assistance.
Coast Guard Sector San Diego watchstanders inmediately launched an Air Station San Diego MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew with an embarked Specialized Trauma Assistance Team (STAR) medic to rendezvous with the vessel and retrieve the two passengers.
Once on scene, the MH-60T Jayhawk MRR helicopter aircrew deployed the rescue swimmer, successfully hoisted the two passengers and transferred they to UCSD Hillcrest in stable condition.
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