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Medevac in Chesapeake Bay

A crew member of the 'Chem Jupiter', en route from Baltimore, was airlifted by the Maryland State Police near Kent Island in the morning of Jan 5, 2022. As the tanker was underway in the Chesapeake Bay near Bloody Point, one of the crew members began experiencing a medical emergency requiring immediate attention. Shortly before 8:45 a.m., the U.S. Coast Guard-Sector Maryland contacted SYSCOM and requested MSP complete an aerial (hoist) extraction from the vessel. The patient’s condition prohibited debarkation onto a smaller Coast Guard vessel. The MSP Aviation Command Trooper 6, based at the Easton Airport in Talbot County, responded and located the ship, which was moving north at 12 knots. The MSP helicopter crew established communications with the Coast Guard crew and the ship’s captain. A delivery point was determined, at which time a Trooper/Paramedic was lowered onto the ship’s deck via the aircraft hoist. The MSP crew used the “screamer suit” style harness to hoist the patient and Trooper back into the aircraft. This style harness allows the Trooper and patient to be hoisted together. After the patient and Trooper/Paramedic were safely loaded into the aircraft, Trooper 6 transitioned to a medevac and flew the patient to Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. Report with video: https://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0122/state-police-helicopter-crew-hoists-tanker-ship-crew-member-in-chesapeake-bay.html