January 16, 2016
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Coast Guard boat crew medevaced a 27-year-old man from freight ship about 6 miles offshore in the Matagorda Anchorage Saturday morning.
At about 9:20 a.m., the crew of the vessel Boraq called Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders and stated the chief officer had been experiencing blurry vision, headaches and vomiting since suffering a fall Friday.
Watchstanders launched a boat crew aboard a Station Port O'Connor 29-foot response boat with an EMT trained Coast Guardsman to respond.
The man was taken onto the response boat and back to Station Port O'Connor where he was transferred to local EMS who took him to Memorial Medical Center in Port Lavaca.