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Coast Guard crew from Port Angeles airlifts cruise ship patient

Published 1:30 am Tuesday, August 15, 2017

By Peninsula Daily News

Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin aircrew members from USCG Air Station Port Angeles share patient information with medics from Airflight Northwest on Monday evening. (Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read/U.S. Coast Guard)

Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin aircrew members from USCG Air Station Port Angeles share patient information with medics from Airflight Northwest on Monday evening. (Petty Officer 1st Class Levi Read/U.S. Coast Guard)

PORT ANGELES — A Coast Guard aircrew airlifted an ill passenger aboard the cruise ship Grand Princess just after it exited the Strait of Juan de Fuca on Monday evening.

The MH-65 Dolphin helicopter aircrew from Air Station Port Angeles safely hoisted the 70-year-old male and transported him back to the air station. He was transferred to Airlift Northwest and taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

A watchstander at Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound received a call from the cruise ship’s doctor at 5:40 p.m. requesting a medevac for a passenger reportedly needing a surgeon and a CT scan.

The aircrew was launched at 7 p.m., arrived on scene with the cruise ship at 7:15 p.m. and safely conducted the hoist.

The patient was reported stable at the time of transfer to Airlift Northwest.

The cruise ship is en route to San Francisco.

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