The bulk carrier Mykonos Seas in Vancouver earlier this month. /Credit: M.L. Jacobs

The Coast Guard medevacked a mariner near Cold Bay on Sunday after he injured his hand in machinery aboard his vessel.

The man was hoisted off the 623-foot cargo ship Mykonos Seas. It’s a Liberian vessel that was about 75 miles southeast of Cold Bay.

The Coast Guard sent its Jayhawk helicopter, forward-deployed in Cold Bay for the winter fishing season, to conduct the rescue. They flew the injured man to the Cold Bay clinic, where he went onto Anchorage via commercial medevac for further treatment. He's reportedly in stable condition.

The rescue came less than a day after an eruption at Pavlof Volcano subsided near Cold Bay. The volcano’s ash plume was dissipating over the Bering Sea at the time. Coast Guard petty officer Kelly Parker says that didn’t have an impact on the medevac.

Conditions at the time included 3-foot seas and winds 11 mph.