OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A man in need of medical attention was rescued from an oil tanker off the coast of San Diego’s North County Tuesday afternoon, according to the United States Coast Guard.
The U.S. Coast Guard San Diego Sector medevac’d a 39-year-old man who was experiencing symptoms of a stroke just after noon on Tuesday off the Polaris Voyager oil tanker that was in the Pacific Ocean about 28 miles west of Oceanside.
An Air Station San Diego MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew was able to hoist the man into the medevac helicopter and took him to the hospital. He arrived at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla in San Diego around 2:30 p.m. and is reported to be in stable condition.
The identity of the man has not been released by officials.
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