Monahan practiced lowering a basket from an MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter onto a 45-foot response boat-medium that was in three-to-four-foot seas.
U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer First Class J.J. Huggins.
LOS ANGELES — A Coast Guard Air Station Ventura MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew conducted the medevac of an ailing man from an oil rig approximately 35 nautical miles offshore from Santa Barbara, Friday afternoon.
Coast Guard 11th District (Pacific Southwest) watchstanders received a call at approximately 10:30 a.m. Friday, from the Platform Heritage reporting a crew member experiencing severe chest pains.
Coast Guard watchstanders coordinated the launch of a Coast Guard Air Station Ventura MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter aircrew to conduct the medevac mission.
The MH-60T Jayhawk MRR Helicopter aircrew arrived on scene, deployed the rescue swimmer and completed the hoist operation for the ailing man into a rescue basket at approximately 12:25 p.m. Once onboard, the rescue helicopter aircrew headed to land and flew to Camarillo Airport.
Coast Guard 11th District watchstanders received a call from the oil platform reporting a crew member experiencing severe chest pains.
U.S. Coast Guard video.
U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Ventura.
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Southwest.
U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area.
The MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew landed in the airport at approximately 1 p.m. and transferred the patient to awaiting emergency medical services (EMS) personnel that transported him to St. John’s Hospital Camarillo for care.
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