
Archive image: A U.S. Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew fly over Louisiana en route to Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 23, 2023.
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NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew medevac a 56-year-old mariner from the offshore floating outer continental shelf facility Helix Producer 1 (DP2) approximately 95 nautical miles south of Port Fourchon, Louisiana. Saturday, February 17, 2024.
U.S. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a report from the Helix Producer 1 of a crew member experiencing kidney stone symptoms.
Inmediately, the Coast Guard Sector NOLA watchstanders coordinated the launch of a Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew and a Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane aircrew to assist.
The MH-60 Jayhawk MRR helicopter aircrew arrived on scene, inmediately landed on the DP2 vessel flight deck and transferred the man aboard the aircraft.
It was reported the man was experiencing kidney stone symptoms.
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Once the helicopter took off, the aircrew transported the sick mariner to land and transfer him to emergency medical services (EMS) personnel awaiting at the University Medical Center, New Orleans.
The man was last reported to be in stable condition.
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