Helicopter Rescue

The Coast Guard on Friday came to the aid of a man who was experiencing chest pains and numbness and tingling in his left arm while aboard a cable-laying vessel off the coast of Montauk.

Shortly before 9 a.m., according to a Coast Guard statement, watchstanders with the Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound command center received notification from the vessel, called the Decisive, that a man was in need of medical assistance. The ship was approximately 60 miles southeast of Montauk at the time.

The man, a 41-year-old whose name has yet to be released, “was safely hoisted from the deck” by a Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew and was flown to Stony Brook University Hospital. According to the Coast Guard, he was in stable condition at the time of transport.

The Jayhawk helicopter was dispatched from Air Station Cape Cod, which is the Northeast’s only Coast Guard aviation facility.