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Response to sick crew man in the middle of the Indian Ocean
A US Air Force team based in Africa rescued a British citizen who had suffered a heart attack on board the ÄLiberty Grace', en route from Durban to Djibouti, in the Indian Ocean, about 500 nautical miles off the coast of Kenya,on Nov 13, 2021. A team of five US Air Force pararescuemen were deployed. Once they reached the cargo ship, they rappelled down to the ship and stabilized him. The pararescumen stayed on board the ship overnight to keep the man stable as the vessel moved closer to the Africa shoreline. The ship transited within 150 nautical miles of the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya overnight. Two Super Pumas were then deployed and flew the man as well as the pararescuemen to the Manda Bay Airfield in Kenya. After they made it to the airfield, a separate aircraft, a DHC-8 airplane, transported the man to a hospital in Nairobi. Report with photo: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/us-air-force-rescue-mission/index.html
Sick crew member medevaced in Bermuda
The "Liberty Grace" was set to arrive off the east end of Bermuda on Oct 16, 2018, to transfer a 67-year-old male crew member who has been suffering from unexplained dizziness. The ship was on route from Galveston, Texas bound for Malta in the Mediterranean. The transfer via the pilot/rescue boat "St. David" took place at 5 p.m. for onward evacuation to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.
US aid ship docks at Port Sudan with food for Sudan war zones
PORT SUDAN - Dockers began unloading tens of thousands of tonnes of food from a US aid ship on Thursday destined for war-torn areas of Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported. The bulk carrier Liberty Grace docked in Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast with a cargo of 47,500 tonnes of sorghum, a staple food in Sudan. Dozens of stevedores were unloading the shipment onto waiting trucks. "It will take 14 days to unload" the entire shipment, said the ship's captain Peter Matesic. It was his third trip to Sudan with a cargo of food aid. A member of the crew said the vessel took 25 days to reach Port Sudan from Houston, Texas. The food aid organised by the US Agency for International Development and the World Food Programme was to be delivered to several war-torn areas of Sudan but mainly to Darfur. https://www.enca.com/africa/us-aid-ship-docks-with-food-for-sudan-war-zones
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