KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) - U.S. Coast Guard crews came to the rescue of a boater who was injured off Key West.

Officials said the 49-year-old woman was on board a sailboat when she suffered a head injury about 6 miles east of Boot Key Harbor, Monday.

Crews managed to safely transfer her onto a Coast Guard ship. Paramedics then took her to a hospital.

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