The Coast Guard was busy in the Bering Sea Thursday, medevacing two fishermen in separate incidents involving cardiac distress.  

Late Wednesday night, the Coast Guard received a call that a 52-year-old man aboard the pollock catcher-processor Arctic Storm was in distress.  The cutter Alex Haley launched its Dolphin helicopter, which intercepted the 314-foot vessel about 63 miles north of Cold Bay.

On Thursday afternoon, a Jayhawk helicopter forward deployed to the Pribilof island of St. Paul  picked up a 57-year-old crewmember from the 310-foot pollock catcher-processor Northern Hawk.  The man was hoisted from the ship and transported to St. Paul for emergency medical treatment.