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CREWMEMBER HOISTED OFF FISHING VESSEL KAREN JAN NEAR OREGON
Posted by: James M. Beard
September 17, 2009
Topic: Injury at Sea
The Coast Guard reported that on August 24, 2009 it received a call that a 30 year old crewmember aboard the KAREN JAN was having trouble breathing. The Coast Guard dispatched a helicopter crew and transported the man from the KAREN JAN which was approximately 57 miles west of Lincoln City, Oregon to Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport.
