The Coast Guard used a helicopter to rescue a man with chest pains on a tugboat 170 miles west of St. Petersburg.
Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg received the call at 1:24 p.m. Thursday from the Mariya Moran, a 120-foot tug, reporting a 57-year-old crew member was suffering chest pains.
A helicopter was sent from Clearwater. The man was hoisted aboard and taken to Tampa General Hospital.
Lt. J.G. Richard Laws, a crew member at the Sector St. Petersburg command center, praised the crew for having a satellite phone aboard.
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