Document Number: 2621
 

Fifth District
U.S. Coast Guard

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Press Release

Date: Sept. 30, 2008
Contact: 609-677-2204

Coast Guard crew medevacs 1 near Cape May, N.J.  

CAPE MAY, N.J. - The Coast Guard medevaced a 54-year-old man Tuesday 85 miles off the coast here.

The Coast Guard received a call at 2:15 a.m. from a passenger aboard the Atlantic Star reporting a crewmember was experiencing chest pains and needed medical attention.

A rescue crew from Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City, N.J., arrived on scene and transported the man to Atlantic City Mainland Hospital for treatment.   

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