The Honolulu-based Coast Guard Cutter Rush prepares to moor up at Coast Guard Base Kodiak to disembark a medevac patient, Dec. 5, 2011. The Rush crew conducted a medevac of a 52-year-old crewman reportedly suffering from abdominal pain off the 610-foot bulk carrier Navios Ulysses the day before. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Jonathan Lally)