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Medevac off Mossel Bay

On Aug 4, 2912, a Russian seafarer aboard the "Chaguinola Bay" needed a medical evacuation off the Mossel Bay coast. The NSRI Mossel Bay Station 15 responded by launching its sea rescue boat Vodacom Rescuer to rendezvous with the reefer vessel which was sailing towards Mossel Bay from the direction of Port Elizabeth. The NSRI Mossel Bay volunteer sea rescue duty crew, accompanied by an ER24 paramedic, rendezvoused with the vessel two nautical miles East of Mossel Bay harbour breakwater and the patient was found to be in a stable conditio, walking wounded, and was brought across to the sea rescue craft. The patient, thought to be suffering from a food related illness, was taken to shore and transported by ambulance to the Life Bay hospital in Mossel Bay where he was treated by hospital staff. The seaman was subsequently discharged into the care of the ships agent, King and Sons.