{"id":294942,"date":"2019-03-05T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=294942"},"modified":"2019-03-05T06:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:00:20","slug":"hsc-25-rescues-distressed-cruise-ship-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hsc-25-rescues-distressed-cruise-ship-passenger\/","title":{"rendered":"HSC-25 rescues distressed cruise ship passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE<\/strong>\u2014Sailors from the Guam-based \u201cIsland Knights\u201d of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 provided emergency assistance to a cruise passenger in distress early Monday, March 4.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 9:45pm Sunday, March 3, HSC-25 was notified by U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam that a passenger aboard MV Arcadia was experiencing a medical emergency. After Arcadia reached within helicopter range of Guam, a rescue mission was launched at 5:45am Monday, by HSC-25 Alert Search and Rescue led by aircraft commander Lt. Richard Schuster. The passenger in distress was recovered via helicopter hoist and returned to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlying to a cruise ship was a unique and challenging medevac experience,\u201d said Schuster. \u201cWe continually practice to prevail when needed most. The Arcadia was very helpful in positioning the ship, allowing Rescue 11\u2019s crew to stabilize the patient on the rescue hoist and get him safely in the aircraft. We were able to expeditiously transport the patient, thanks to our Flight Surgeon Lt. Kumetz and SAR Medical Technician HM2 Bowen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident was the fifth emergency call to HSC-25 by U.S. Coast Guard Sector Guam and marks two recoveries during search-and-rescue and medical evacuations in 2019 to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could not be more proud of our maintenance and flight crews this morning,\u201d said HSC-25 commanding officer Cmdr. Frank Loforti. \u201cYet again, the Island Knights executed a flawless MEDEVAC [medical evacuation], I\u2019m honored to be part of the winning team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HSC-25 provides a multi-mission rotary wing capability for units in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations and maintains a Guam-based 24-hour search-and-rescue and medical evacuation capability, directly supporting U.S. Coast Guard and Joint Region Marianas. HSC-25 is the Navy\u2019s only forward-deployed MH-60S expeditionary squadron. <strong>(Amphibious Force 7th Fleet)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE\u2014Sailors from the Guam-based \u201cIsland Knights\u201d of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":303056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pacific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}