US Coast Guard lifts injured Lankan from vessel
An injured Sri Lankan man was plucked from a ship 225 miles southeast
of Kodiak and safely medevacked to the town for treatment, the US Coast
Guard said on Monday.
The Coast Guard received a request on Saturday morning to lift the
unidentified man from the Santiago, a 572-foot Marshall Islands-flagged
vessel. An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and an HC-130 aircraft were deployed
from Kodiak.
Anchorage Daily News |
