Photos Of Rescue From Cargo Vessel In Chesapeake Bay Released

ANNAPOLIS, MD — The Anne Arundel County Fire Department has released photos from last week's rescue of a worker on a cargo vessel in Chesapeake Bay. Authorities say a worker fell 20 feet off a ladder in a ship's cargo hold and suffered a serious leg injury.

Annapolis Fire Department crews were called just before 11 a.m. Dec. 7 to rescue the man from the 620-foot ship located in the Annapolis Anchorage south of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The sailor was located at the bottom of a 100-foot deep hold on the ship.

Crews from the county fire department, the City of Annapolis Fire Department, Maryland Natural Resources Police, Coast Guard, and Maryland State Police - Aviation Command took part in the rescue. Anne Arundel fire officials said the worker was packaged into a sling while in the vessel's hold, then hoisted onto the ship's deck and then taken by an Annapolis Fire Department fireboat to the City Dock, where paramedics transferred him to a waiting Maryland State Police medevac helicopter.

The 35-year-old man was flown to the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center with injuries that were serious but not believed life-threatening.

Emergency officials released photos from the rescue on Dec. 14.

Photos of cargo vessel rescue courtesy of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department