Dale Sparrow, the 46-year-old captain of the fishing trawler Danny Boy, was suffering from chest pains and needed immediate assistance.
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A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk from Air Station Cape Cod was launched to medevac the patient. The Coast Guard dispatched a SAR helicopter to the scene but its crew determined a hoist rescue to be too unsafe due to the fishing boat’s deck layout.
Coast Guard Sector Northern New England issued an urgent marine information broadcast requesting assistance from nearby vessels. The Navy’s new stealth destroyer began a week of sea trials Monday.
In addition, there are 80 MK-41 peripheral vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells, a stern ramp for launching two Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats, and a flight deck for two MH-60R or one MH-60R and 3 VT Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The helicopter crew then hoisted the patient and transported him to shore, where he was taken to a hospital. “Fortunately the Zumwalt was operating in the area and was able to provide valuable assistance to facilitate a safe hoist evolution for the rescue crew”.
The Navy’s stealthy new destroyer is already making a port of call.
It’s equipped with the most advanced radar and sonar systems, but other ships with the same setup would detect the Zumwalt as only a small fishing boat thanks to its stealth design.
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More than 200 shipbuilders, sailors and residents gathered to watch as the futuristic 15,000-ton ship glided past Fort Popham, accompanied by tugboats. The ship returned to Bath Iron Works Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, after completing its first six days of sea trials, and will remain berthed there for the time being. And a 2007 report, “Dynamic Stability of Flared and Tumblehome Hull Forms in Waves”, presented at the 9th International Ship Stability Workshop in Germany, concluded that “Increasing wave heights … lead to drastic reductions in the stability of the tumblehome topside hull form”.
