110815-G-EK967-Air Station Houston 180 mile medevac

HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES

08.15.2011

Video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm 

U.S. Coast Guard District 8       

HOUSTON - The Coast Guard medevaced a man from a motor tanker 178 miles south east of Galveston, Saturday evening.

Watchstanders at Sector Houston-Galveston received a report at approximately 8:54 p.m. that a male crewman aboard the London Trader, a 422-foot motor tanker. was experiencing extreme stomach pains.

Coast Guard Air Station Houston launched a MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and Air Station Corpus Christi launched a HU-25 Falcon jet and crew to the scene at approximately 11:22 p.m. The crew successfully located and hoisted the crewman off the London Trader and transported him to awaiting emergency medical servces at University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston.

U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Richard Brahm.

• Date Taken: 08.15.2011
• Date Posted: 12.21.2013 14:04
• Category: B-Roll
• Video ID: 317152
• Filename: DOD_101062054
• Length: 00:01:26
• Location: HOUSTON, TX, US