(Courtesy: Marine Exchange of Alaska)

The Coast Guard hoisted a sick crewman off a processing ship near Unalaska on Sunday night.

The Northern Victor is a 380-foot pollock processor that anchors in Beaver Inlet, about 13 miles from town. They called Unalaska EMS and the Coast Guard Cutter Munro, which is on a port call in town, for help on Sunday.

A 37-year-old crew member on the Victor had fallen ill, according to the Coast Guard. Acting fire chief Zac Schasteen says the man was having a diabetic crisis.

The Munro and its Jayhawk helicopter crew are on a routine patrol in the Bering Sea. Coast Guard public affairs officer Grant DeVuyst says the Jayhawk has been staged at Unalaska’s airport while the cutter is in port.

"So when the call came in, the Munro worked with the air crew there, [and] they worked with Coast Guard 17th District Command Center here in Juneau, to get the helicopter launched over to Beaver Inlet pretty nearby to Dutch Harbor there," says DeVuyst, "where they were able to hoist the ill man and bring him back to the clinic there in Dutch Harbor."

Winds during the medevac were 23 miles an hour, with seas 6 feet. The sick man was treated at Iliuliuk Family & Health Services, then medevacked on to Anchorage for further care. There’s no word on his condition.

This story has been updated.