SEATTLE (AP) - Coast Guard crews hoisted an injured man from a Canadian naval vessel that was in the northern section of Admiralty Inlet.
The Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound command center in Seattle was notified at 10:30 a.m. Friday that a man aboard the 181-foot (55-meter) Royal Canadian Navy Ship HMCS Nanaimo had sustained a head injury after a fall.
The Coast Guard says the ship crew reported that the man had a laceration on his head and showed signs of a concussion.
A Coast Guard helicopter crew conducting training exercises nearby responded and lowered a rescue swimmer onto the ship’s deck.
The injured man was then put into a basket and hoisted into the helicopter.
The aircraft transported him to a Seattle hospital where he was then transferred by ambulance to another facility for medical care.
The patient’s medical condition was not known.
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