EASTPORT, Maine — A fisherman with a hand injury was rescued off the Eastport coast Monday.
A Coast Guard 47-foot motor lifeboat crew from Station Eastport rescued the man from the 35-foot fishing vessel Latta II, which had been about 30 minutes off the Eastport pier, Petty Officer 3rd Class Ross Ruddell said Tuesday.
The captain of the Latta II called in at about 4:20 p.m. to report a crewmember injured his left hand while operating a winch.
The lifeboat crew reached the Latta II at 4:49 p.m. and took the man aboard.
At 5:02 p.m. the Coast Guard crew brought the patient to waiting emergency medical services personnel from the Washington County Emergency Medical Service Authority at a pier in Deep Cove on Moose Island.
“The whole operation didn’t take that long,” Ruddell, Coast Guard public affairs officer, said.
“Time is of the essence during a medevac,” Petty Officer 2nd Class Jessie Johnson, a watchstander at Sector Northern New England’s command center, said in a news release. “The station crew was on scene quickly, and with EMS standing by at the pier, they were able to transfer care.”
The release did not name the man, and Ruddell did not know it either.
The Washington County Emergency Medical Service Authority declined to release his name.