STOLT FLAMENCO

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Crewmember hit by crane on deck

A man was medically evacuated from the "Stolt Flamenco" by a Coast Guard helicopter crew on Feb 2, 2013, in the evening, approximately 50 miles southeast of the Texas-Mexico border. The tanker crew contacted Coast Guard Sector Corpus Christi watchstanders at about 2:30 p.m. and requested a medevac for a Filipino crewmember who was struck by a crane while working on deck and had lost feeling in the lower half of his body. The watchstanders deployed crews aboard an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter to recover the man and an HU-25 Falcon jet to provide communications cover. The helicopter crew hoisted the man aboard and dropped him off to an awaiting EMS crew at Brownsville/South Padre Island International Airport at 6:50 p.m. and was taken to Brownsville Valley Baptist Hospital. Report with video: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1697047/Coast-Guard-helicopter-crew-medevacs-man-from-tanker-in-Gulf-of-Mexico