A Norfolk-based sailor injured in a hovercraft collision off Florida coast earlier this week was transported to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth to continue treatment closer to home, according to the Navy.

Thirty sailors and Marines assigned to Norfolk-based Navy ships were injured Wednesday in a hovercraft training incident, the Navy said. The service members were injured in an “incident” involving two hovercraft vessels,

It happened on two Landing Craft Air Cushions from the USS Wasp and USS New York off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida.

Five sailors were medically evacuated for additional care to a hospital in Georgia, though four of them were released after treatment. One sailor remains in the hospital, according to an emailed statement from the service on Friday.

On Wednesday evening, a training exercise off the Florida coast turned perilous when two Navy air-cushioned landing craft (LCACs) collided, resulting in injuries to 30 sailors and Marines. The accident occurred during a pre-deployment Composite Training Unit Exercise involving the USS Wasp (LHD-1),

At least 30 sailors and Marines were injured off the Atlantic coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday when two landing hovercrafts collided. Landing Craft Air Cushions, or LCACs, from both the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and the transport dock vessel USS New York crashed into each other,