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PRESS RELEASE
Castletownbere
Lifeboat Station
Lifeboat
Press Officer: Mr
Paul J. Stevens
Tel.:
(w) 027-70935 Fax.: (w)
027-70788 Tel.:
(h) 027-70729
Fax : (h) 027-71942
Mob.:
086 – 6015110 e-mail:
lifeboat5236@eircom.net
Injured
Fisherman brought to safety
A Ghanian national fishing on a Spanish registered vessel with
serious arm injuries was brought to safety this morning by
Castletownbere Lifeboat.
At 5.30 a.m. this
morning Valentia Coastguard
radio was requested to
assist an injured fisherman from the 36 metre Spanish registered fishing
vessel “Neuvo Nemesia”. The man, in his early thirties, had caught
his arm in a winch yesterday and had a suspected crushed arm, broken
elbow and dislocated shoulder. The vessel was at this stage located
fifty miles south of Castletownbere.
At 5.50 a.m., Castletownbere’s 52’ all weather
RNLI lifeboat ‘Murray Loirne’ was launched, under command of 2nd
Deputy Coxswain Paul Stevens and with crew
Brendan Gonnelly, Dan
Murphy, Darren Morlsley, Paddy O’Conor, Martin Cronin, Philip
O’Driscoll, and Lorraine Murphy. The “Neuvo Nemesia” was steaming
towards Castletown and was met at 7.40. a.m. by the lifeboat twenty nine
miles south of Ardnakinna lighthouse. Conditions were moderate and the
lifeboat was manoeuvred alongside the fishing vessel while the casualty
was prepared for transfer. The injured man was lowered on to the
foredeck of the lifeboat and made comfortable in the wheelhouse, and
remained under observation until the lifeboat’s arrival in
Castletownbere at 9.45 a.m.
He was landed at the Slip at the eastern end of the
pier and the waiting
ambulance transferred him to Bantry Hospital. Castletownbere lifeboat
was refuelled and ready for service again by 10.10 a.m.. Lifeboat
Operations Manager, Tony O’Sullivan, stated, “This has been a busy
year to date with six call-outs and this is the third medical evacuation
so far. The RNLI ensures that the lifeboat is available 24 hours a day
to assist those injured at sea.”
Wednesday 31st
March 2004. 12.15 p.m.
For further details
contact: Paul Stevens 086-6015110
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