A US Air Force team based in Africa rescued a British citizen who had suffered a heart attack on board an American cargo ship in the Indian Ocean this weekend, according to the US military.
The Warfighting Recovery Network received an"urgent request" on Saturday for a mariner"experiencing symptoms of a heart attack," on a US flagged cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, about 500 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya, a press release from US Africa Command said. After the urgent call came in, a team of five US Air Force pararescuemen were deployed. They flew an aircraft to reach the man on the ship in the middle of the ocean.
After they made it to the airfield, a separate aircraft, a DHC-8 airplane, transported the man to a hospital in Nairobi. Read More"The patient is doing well, and I am so proud of my team for their part," US Air Force Master Sgt. Trevor Clark, 82nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron pararescueman said in a statement.
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