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Russian Fisherman Evacuated

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Jonathan Tufts, NSRI Port Elizabeth deputy station commander, said:

At 12h00, Friday, 01 January, NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew launched the sea rescue craft Spirit of Toft, accompanied by an EC Government Health EMS rescue paramedic, to respond to meet up with a local fishing trawler that was approaching Port Elizabeth from deep sea to patient evacuate an adult male Russian fisherman injured from a fall onboard the fishing vessel.

We rendezvoused with the fishing vessel in Algoa Bay and the patient was transferred onto our sea rescue craft and in the care of the EMS rescue paramedic he was brought to our sea rescue station and transported to hospital by EMS ambulance in a stable condition.

NSRI EOC (Emergency Operations Centre), Telkom Maritime Radio Services, a WC Government Health EMS duty doctor, the Transnet Port Health Authority, EC Government Health EMS, the ship agent, NSRI Port Elizabeth duty controllers and Transnet National Ports Authority, assisted MRCC (Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre) in operational logistics and coordination.

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