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Coast Guard medevacs fisherman

March 19, 2019 — The Coast Guard said it medevaced a sick fisherman Sunday from a boat 50 miles off Gloucester and took him to the hospital.

An MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Air Station Cape Cod picked up the 40-year-old ill fisherman from the fishing vessel America, approximately 50 miles east of Gloucester on Sunday.

The aircrew brought the man to Massachusetts General Hospital.

Read the full story at the Gloucester Daily Times

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