The U.S. Coast Guard is reporting a man was medevacked this morning off the Bering Sea factory trawler Alaska Ocean after he was "struck in the head by one of the vessel's cables."
A Coast Guard helicopter crew hoisted Franz D'Alquen, 47, at about 11:20 a.m.
The 376-foot trawler was in calm seas some 50 miles north of Cold Bay. Glacier Fish Co. of Seattle operates the vessel.