In a terrible boat crash just 15 miles from San Diego, three crew members were found dead and one sailor is still missing. A California yacht called the Aegean was racing from Newport, CA to Ensenada, Mexico when it went missing on Saturday morning.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the surrounding vessels began to see debris around the Coronado Islands at 10 a.m. Two of the bodies were found dead in the debris by civilian boats along with the third that was spotted by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter.
The U.S. Coast Guard has recently suspended their search for the missing sailor from the 37-foot Aegean. The Coast Guard was able to search 600 square miles around the crash of the Aegean yacht by Saturday afternoon, just hours after the crash.
Captain Sean Mahoney of the Commander Sector San Diego released this statement, “It’s never easy to make the decision to suspend a search and rescue case. The Coast Guard extends its sympathies to the families and friends of the Aegean crew. They will be in our thoughts and prayers.”
The victims’ names haven’t been released although it was listed that Theo Mavromatis was the owner and skipper of the Aegean. It is not certain that he was aboard the Aegean at the time of the crash.
Many believe the Aegean yacht was involved in a crash with a much larger ship during its race along the Coronado Islands.
Two very special San Diego Navy doctors saved a man’s life on a flight from San Diego to Texas this past month. The two San Diego doctors were going to a medical training course in San Antonio, Texas on February 8th.
On their flight to the cadaver dissection course, a man on the plane went into cardiac arrest while mid-air. Lt. Gregory Capra and Lt. Art Ambrosio, whom both reside in the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, desperately tried to save the man. They had been flying for nearly two hours when the incident happened.
The two Navy doctors tried CPR two times, both of which were unsuccessful. The doctors also tried to administer an Automated Extern Defibrillator (AED) and yet the man did not respond. Another nurse aboard the plane tried to inject an epinephrine IV line into the man’s veins but they were non-accessible.
The last attempt from the two doctors did the job. After hearing of the man’s airway obstruction history from the man’s wife, one doctor was able to thrust the man’s jaw up to open his airway at the same time the other doctor inserted a plastic hook device into his throat. After the hook was in place, the man began to regain consciousness and squeezed on the doctor’s hand to show response.
After the plane made an emergency landing, the man was placed in the care of local medics; his current condition is unknown. The doctors were fortunate for their Navy hospital training which coaches the doctors to work under pressure such as the cardiac arrest emergency on this flight.
Lt. Capra stated, “We were in shock that it had actually happened and that we were in the middle of it all. We were like, “Did that just happen to us? It was very surreal.”
In a terrible boat crash just 15 miles from San Diego, three crew members were found dead and one sailor is still missing. A California yacht called the Aegean was racing from Newport, CA to Ensenada, Mexico when it went missing on Saturday morning.
