Fishing Trip Ends With Flight to Stony Brook Hospital

A man fell while possibly experiencing a medical problem aboard the Montauk Star charter boat Wednesday morning, according to the Coast Guard. 

Petty Officer Matthew Foster at Coast Guard Station Montauk said he and four other guardsmen were on their way to Greenport when Sector Long Island Sound received a distress call. A man had fallen from the second deck to the first deck and was unconscious. Initial reports were that he might have had a heart attack, causing him to fall, but Officer Foster could not confirm that. 

The Coast Guard crew met the Montauk Star about two nautical miles east of the Montauk Inlet, and two guardsman, one of them Officer Foster, boarded the boat to adminster first aid to the man, who was then conscious, in pain, and "somewhat stable."

The Montauk Star was escorted to the Coast Guard station on Star Island Drive in Montauk, where they were met by personnel from the Montauk Fire Department ambulance company at about 12:30 p.m. 

The man was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital. His name was not released.