The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) rescued a person from a fishing vessel after receiving an emergency call on Friday evening, Cape {town} Etc reports.
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According to Phillip Fouche, NSRI Simon’s Town deputy station commander, the duty crew was activated in response to Telkom Maritime Radio Services’ reports of a medical emergency on a fishing vessel south of Cape Point.
The boat was approximately two hours south of Cape Point, sailing towards Simon’s Town.
A WC Government Health EMS duty doctor, assisted by MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre), evaluated the patient in communication with the ship’s crew, and it was decided to initiate a medical evacuation operation for the adult male crewman who had collapsed onboard, reportedly due to a medical condition.
MRCC received assistance from the NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre), NSRI Simon’s Town duty controllers, TMNP (Transnet National Ports Authority), WC Government Health EMS, Telkom Maritime Radio Services, and Hout Bay volunteer EMS with the logistics and coordination of the medical evacuation operation.
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‘Our NSRI Simon’s Town rescue craft Donna Nicholas was launched, accompanied by an EMS rescue paramedic, and we rendezvoused with the vessel between two and four nautical miles South of Cape Point’ said Fouche.
The EMS rescue paramedic and two NSRI MEX (Maritime Extrication) crew members were brought to the vessel, where medical care began.
‘The local adult male patient, secured into a Stokes basket stretcher, was transferred onto the NSRI rescue craft and, in the care of the EMS rescue paramedic, the patient was brought to our NSRI Simon’s Town station 10 rescue base, where he was transported to hospital by Hout Bay volunteer EMS ambulance in a stable condition for further treatment.’
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