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Coast Guard aircrews safely hoisted all three injured crewmen from the cargo vessel Copacabana April 21, 2014, and brought them to Kodiak, Alaska, where they were met by emergency medical personnel for further transport to Anchorage. The crews conducted multiple hoists necessary to deploy two rescue swimmers, a flight surgeon and a health services technician to the ship and recover them along with the three crewmen. U.S. Coast Guard video by Air Station Kodiak CG1712. Also available in high definition. Two Air Station Kodiak MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews safely medevaced three injured crewmembers from the 587-foot cargo vessel Copacabana approximately 200 miles south of Kodiak, Alaska, April 21, 2014. The crewmembers were flown to Kodiak to meet commercial medical flight services who flew the men to higher level medical care in Anchorage. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Diana Honings. Also available in high definition. Coast Guard aircrews, Coast Guard Fire and Rescue personnel, Kodiak Fire Department and LifeMed Alaska personnel transfer one of three injured men from a Coast Guard helicopter to a gurney and ultimately a LifeMed Alaska jet for further transport to Anchorage April 21, 2014, in Kodiak, Alaska. The Coast Guard received a request from the master of the 587-foot cargo vessel Copacabana Sunday reporting his crewmen had been injured when the ship sustained a hit from a large wave at sea prompting the Coast Guard to launch the two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and an HC-130 Hercules airplane crew to respond. U.S. Coast Guard video by Chief Petty Officer Sara Mooers. Also available in high definition. U.S. Coast Guard press release |
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