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HOUSTON — The Coast Guard medevaced an oil tanker crewman Saturday and a boy from a cruise ship Monday offshore Texas.
Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston watchstanders received a call at approximately 11 a.m. Saturday from the crew of the crude oil tanker High Adventurer stating a 57-year-old crewman had been experiencing abdominal pain 10 miles south of Galveston, Texas.
Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast and diverted an airborne MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Houston to assist. The aircrew arrived on the scene, hoisted the patient and transported him to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston in stable condition.
Command center watchstanders received a call at 10:30 p.m. Sunday from a crew member of the Royal Caribbean cruise ship Harmony of the Seas stating a 6-year-old boy had sustained an injury 100 miles offshore Houston.
Watchstanders issued an urgent marine information broadcast, then directed the launch of an HC-144 Ocean Sentry airplane crew from Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi and an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Air Station Houston to conduct the medevac.
The helicopter crew arrived on scene and transported the injured boy and his mother to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston in stable condition.
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