Fisherman casualty evacuated off trawler
By Tina George
09 June 2008
On Saturday morning at 11 am the National Sea Rescue Institute Hout Bay were activated to evacuate a 22 year old Hout Bay fisherman off the 25 metre Viking Fishing Companies trawler Armana.
According to NSRI, the Company owners had requested NSRI assistance, while the vessel motored towards Hout Bay, for their crewman, suffering suspected complications to an abdominal stab wound, sustained approximately a month ago and treated at a hospital.
"We launched our rescue craft Queenie Payne and Metro Ambulance and Rescue Services dispatched the local Metro Hout Bay Volunteer EMS ambulance to stand-by at their rescue base," says NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
“The crewman, found to be in a stable and satisfactory condition despite some pain, the paramedics who suspect that the injury may have internal complications but finding the patient to be stable and in a satisfactory condition. "
Craig added that it appeared that the fisherman may have boarded the ship on the fishing voyage believing that his wound was completely healed.
09 June 2008
On Saturday morning at 11 am the National Sea Rescue Institute Hout Bay were activated to evacuate a 22 year old Hout Bay fisherman off the 25 metre Viking Fishing Companies trawler Armana.
According to NSRI, the Company owners had requested NSRI assistance, while the vessel motored towards Hout Bay, for their crewman, suffering suspected complications to an abdominal stab wound, sustained approximately a month ago and treated at a hospital.
"We launched our rescue craft Queenie Payne and Metro Ambulance and Rescue Services dispatched the local Metro Hout Bay Volunteer EMS ambulance to stand-by at their rescue base," says NSRI spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
“The crewman, found to be in a stable and satisfactory condition despite some pain, the paramedics who suspect that the injury may have internal complications but finding the patient to be stable and in a satisfactory condition. "
Craig added that it appeared that the fisherman may have boarded the ship on the fishing voyage believing that his wound was completely healed.
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