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Coast Guard medevac mariner near Galveston, Texas

Coast Guard medevac mariner near Galveston, Texas, MH-65 Dolphin Air Station Houston
Archive image: An MH-65 helicopter waits on the flightline before takeoff on a training mission at Air Station Houston. Night operations training prepares air crews for the daunting task of performing a rescue with very little light and low visibility.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin R. Williams.

HOUSTON​ — A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter aircrew from Air Station Houston medevac a 50-year-old mariner from a tanker vessel, Willard J, approximately 7 nautic miles offshore Galveston, Texas, Sunday.

The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a medical evacuation (medevac) request at 11:50 a.m. from the captain of the tanker vessel Willard J for a crewmember who was displaying symptoms of a heart attack. Watchstanders consulted with the duty flight surgeon who inmediately recommended the medevac.

A Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin Short-Range Recovery (SRR) helicopter aicrew hoisted the mariner and transported him to awaiting emergency medical services (EMS) personnel at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, in stable condition.

A Coast Guard Air Station Houston MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew hoist a 50-year-old male from the tanker vessel Willard J approximately seven miles offshore Galveston, Texas, Nov. 1, 2020. The mariner was transported to awaiting emergency medical services personnel at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in stable condition.
U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Houston.

The Coast Guard Air Station Houston was the first to receive the MH-65E Dolphin rescue helicopter upgrade. July 29 of this year 2020 marked the first mission with the new Echo standard while attending a 77-foot fishing vessel that was taking water in Bayou, Louisiana.

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