Watch Coast Guard hoist ill crew member from Gulf towboat

A Coast Guard crew member is lowered by cable from a helicopter to the deck of a towing vessel in the Gulf of Mexico to aid a man with severe abdominal pain on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

The Coast Guard released video Wednesday of a helicopter rescuing an ill man from a towboat in the Gulf of Mexico.

The 37-year-old man, a crew member on the Tenner C, was experiencing severe abdominal pain Tuesday afternoon. The Coast Guard said it dispatched an MH-60 Jayhawk from New Orleans to the vessel about 60 miles south of the Mississippi River's mouth.

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The helicopter hoisted the man from the vessel and flew him to University Medical Center, where the agency said he was in stable condition.

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