EASTERN CAPE - PATIENT MEDIVACED FROM FISHING TRAWLER OFF ST FRANCIS BAY

At 05h59, Wednesday, 27th November, NSRI St Francis Bay duty crew were activated following a request for medical assistance from the skipper of a Cape Town stern trawler requiring a crewman to be medivaced off the trawler to hospital.

MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre), Telkom Maritime Radio Services, TNPA (Transnet National Ports Authority), NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre) and a Government Health EMS duty doctor assisted with the logistics and coordination of the patient evacuation to hospital.

Private Care ambulance services were placed on alert.

We launched our sea rescue craft Spirit of St Francis II and rendezvoused with the fishing trawler 14 nautical miles off St Francis Bay.

The patient, a local man aged 29, was transferred onto our sea rescue craft and was medically assessed by NSRI medics. In a stable condition, we transported him to our sea rescue station where Private Care ambulance services paramedics took him into their care.

He has been transported by Private Care ambulance to hospital in a stable condition.

The operation was completed at 07h54.

via - NSRI