Video update: Coast Guard medevacs cruise-ship passenger southwest of Newport, Ore.

An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, from Coast Guard Air Station North Bend, Ore., and forward deployed to Coast Guard Air Facility Newport, medevaced a 78-year-old man from a cruise ship 29 miles southwest of Newport, May 27, 2016. Personnel aboard the Crystal Serenity, a 820-foot Bahamas-flagged cruise ship homeported in Nassau, requested the medevac when one of their passengers was reportedly suffering from internal bleeding while transiting from Astoria to San Fransisco, Calif.  U.S. Coast Guard video courtesy of Air Station North Bend.

NORTH BEND, Ore. — A Coast Guard aircrew medevaced a 78-year-old man from a cruise ship 29 miles southwest of Newport, Ore., Friday.

An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew, from Coast Guard Air Station North Bend and forward deployed to Coast Guard Air Facility Newport, safely transferred the man to emergency medical service personnel waiting at the air facility. 

“Our crews train regularly in order to safely and efficiently transport the sick and injured to a higher level of care when needed,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Aspiras, a operations specialist at Sector North Bend. “The crews training and ability to work with our local partners helps ensure the safety of those who find themselves in emergency situations.”

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