Dawie Zwiegelaar, NSRI Mossel Bay station commander, said:
At 04h00 on the morning of Saturday, 04th August, NSRI Mossel Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew were activated to medically casualty evacuate a Russian sailor from the 142 meter Russian research ship Shanequinola Bay reporting their 48 year old Russian crewman onboard to be ill from a suspected food related illness.
The ships agent had requested NSRI to be on alert stand-by since Friday night while the ship sailed towards Mossel Bay from the direction of Port Elizabeth.
Our NSRI Mossel Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew launched our sea rescue craft Vodacom Rescuer and responded, accompanied by an ER24 paramedic, and rendezvoused with the vessel 2 nautical miles East of Mossel Bay harbour breakwater and the patient was found to be in a stable condition (walking wounded) and he was brought across to our sea rescue craft and brought to shore and he was transported by ambulance to the Life Bay hospital in Mossel Bay where he was treated by hospital staff and discharged at 08h00 (on Saturday morning) into the care of the ships agent – King and Sons.
-ENDS-
Released by:
Craig Lambinon
Sea Rescue Communications
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