Archive image: A Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew conducts hoist training with the USCGC Mohawk (WMEC 913) in the Atlantic Ocean, July 5, 2022.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessica Fontenette.
HOUSTON — The Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin aircrews conducted two medevacs on Saturday and Monday night, January 13 and 15, 2024.
The Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin aircrews conducted the first medevac of an oil tanker crewman Saturday and a boy from a cruise ship on Monday night at 100 nautical miles offshore Texas coast.
Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a call at approximately 11 a.m. Saturday from the crew of the crude oil tanker High Adventurer stating a 57-year-old crewman had been experiencing abdominal pain 10 nautical miles south of Galveston, Texas.
Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and diverted a Coast Guard MH-65E Dolphin Short-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston to assist. The SRR Helicopter aircrew arrived on the scene, deployed the rescue swimmer, hoisted the patient and transported him to the emergency medical services (EMS) personnel awaiting at University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in stable condition.
Command center watchstanders received a call at 10:30 p.m. Sunday from a crew member of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Harmony of the Seas stating a 6-year-old boy had sustained an injury 100 nautical miles offshore Houston.
Coast Guard watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast (UMIB), then directed the launch of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Houston to conduct the medevac.
The MH-65E Dolphin helicopter aircrew arrived on scene in the early hours of Monday, at night, lands on cruise ship flight deck and transported the injured boy and his mother to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston in stable condition.
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