PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard is conducting a medevac of a man located on a disabled sailing vessel Thursday approximately 200 miles off the North Carolina coast.
Watchstanders at the Coast Guard 5th District Command Center in Portsmouth received notification from the 1085-foot, German-flagged motor vessel Houston Express at approximately 1:30 p.m., indicating they spotted a man and the vessel approximately 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and took him aboard.
Louis Jordan told his father, Francis, by phone that he survived by catching fish with his hands and eating them raw, Lt. Krystyn Pecora of the Coast Guard said. He also used his hands to cup and drink rain water.
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew launched from Air Station Elizabeth City, North Carolina, at approximately 3:40 p.m. The helicopter is scheduled to meet the Houston Express, hoist the man and transport him to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in Norfolk.
The man, 37-year-old Louis Jordan and the sailing vessel Angel, were initially reported missing by his family to the Coast Guard Jan. 29.
The Coast Guard will conduct a debrief with Jordan.
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