A FORTY-SIX year old crewman from a Romanian ship was safely evacuated off a crude oil tanker, six nautical miles off-shore of the Port of Durban on Friday morning, 9 August.
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National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) Durban rescue swimmers, Netcare 911 rescue paramedics and a SA Air Force Flight team in a SA Air Force 15 Squadron Oryx helicopter, carried out the operation successfully. “The patient, suffering a medical emergency, was airlifted to hospital in a serious but stable condition for further medical treatment. The Airborne Sea Rescue operation was initiated last night to be carried out at first light this morning,” explained Craig Lambinon, NSRI spokesperson.
Telkom Maritime Radio Services assisted with marine radio communications. Another successful rescue took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning, 6 August, where the NSRI Durban duty crew, accompanied by ER24 rescue paramedics, launched the sea rescue craft Alick Rennie to rendezvous with a Crude Oil tanker, approaching off-shore of the Port of Durban, to patient evacuate a 60 year old Russian crewman on the ship reported to be suffering a medical emergency.
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“NSRI were alerted just before midnight by TNPA (Transnet National Ports Authority) to prepare for the operation on the Crude Oil tankers arrival off-shore of Durban at 4.30am. On arrival on the scene, an NSRI rescue swimmer and an ER24 rescue paramedic were transferred onto the ship and the patient was stabilised and secured into a Stokes basket stretcher and in a technical rescue operation using the ships crane the patient was transferred (hoisted) onto the sea rescue craft. The ER24 rescue paramedic was hoisted onto the sea rescue craft from the ship attached to the Stokes basket stretcher to ensure additional patient safety,” said Lambinon.
Once onboard the sea rescue craft the patient, in the care of the ER24 paramedics, was brought into the Port of Durban to the NSRI Durban Station 5 Sea Rescue base and was transported to hospital by an ER24 ambulance in a serious but stable condition for further medical care.
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