Coast Guard Station Chatham received a new search and rescue boat Wednesday, July 2, 2008. The 42-foot boat, manufactured by Safe Boat International, is designed to be highly maneuverable in breaking surf and will eventually replace Station Chatham's other two surf boats. The new boat can maneuver through 15-foot surf and 50-knot winds.
New Bedford trawler Blue Sea II was 95 miles east of Cape
A Coast Guard helicopter crew airlifted a 56-year-old fisherman who was suffering from abdominal pain aboard a fishing vessel approximately 95 miles east of Chatham today.
The Coast Guard First District Command Center in Boston received a call around 9 a.m., from the Rescue Coordination Center in Halifax, Canada, reporting the Blue Sea II, based in New Bedford, Mass., had a fisherman aboard in need of medical attention.
Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod, Mass., launched an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter and arrived on scene around 11 a.m. The Jayhawk crew airlifted the man from the vessel and transported him to a Hyannis, Mass., hospital.
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