An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was called to the Platform Heritage rig about 35 miles off the California coastline around 10:30 a.m. Friday on reports of a seriously ill worker, the agency said.
The helicopter arrived at the oil rig shortly before 12:30 p.m. to retrieve the worker.
The footage shows a Coast Guard crew member being rappelled onto the deck of the rig, followed by a stretcher — with the ill worker then placed on the stretcher and pulled up to the Jayhawk.
The Coast Guard crew transported the man to Camarillo Airport in Ventura County, California, where he was treated and rushed to St John’s Hospital Camarillo for further treatment.
The workers identity and condition were not released.
