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Joint Task Force Atlantic release video of medevac rescue

A video of a medical evacuation off Newfoundland's coast has been released by Joint Task Force Atlantic.

A new video has been released by the Joint Task Force Atlantic that shows a medical evacuation from a fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland.

The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax dispatched a Comorant helicopter from 103 Search and Rescue Squadron in Gander and 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron in Greenwood, N.S., on Sunday. 

The aircraft responded to a vessel 235 nautical miles southwest of St. John's. 

A crew member was airlifted from the vessel and was safely taken to the Health Sciences Centre.