Golden Hour Award: Bering Sea rescue in bad weather saves injured crab catch crewman
A Coast Guard helicopter crew that performed a challenging rescue of an injured fisherman in the Bering Sea will be honored tonight with HAI’s Eurocopter G

A Coast Guard helicopter crew that performed a challenging rescue of an injured fisherman in the Bering Sea will be honored tonight with HAI’s Eurocopter Golden Hour Award. The award was created in 1982 to recognize the efforts of air medical service helicopter pilots who, through a particular rescue or through contributions over time to the air medical industry, advance the use of helicopters in this mission.

It was several hours before sunrise Jan. 30, 2009, in Juneau, Alaska when the U.S. Coast Guard’s District 17 headquarters received a distress call from a crab fishing boat in the Bering Sea with a badly injured crewman. The man had been struck in the head by a falling wooden tackle block, which crashed to the deck after hitting him. According to the emergency call, the fisherman’s life was in danger.

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