Oban Lifeboat answers Mayday call
published this on 2:45 pm, Friday, 23rd October, 2009Community News| Diving| Rescue | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
At 09.33 today the MFV Gaelic Rose issued a mayday call for assistance when a male passenger collapsed on deck. At the time the Gaelic Rose was in Ardmucknish bay with a number of divers in the water diving on the wartime wreck, Breda. The casualty, though, had not been diving.
At 09.43 Clyde Coastguard paged Oban’s RLNI Lifeboat, Mora Edith Macdonald and she was launched at 09.50 under the command of Coxswain Ronnie MacKillop and with volunteer crewmember Dr Colin Wilson aboard.
The Lifeboat was on scene at 10.06 and departed for Oban with the casualty around five minutes later.
The patient was monitored on the passage by Dr Wilson, was landed back in Oban at 10.35 and transferred by ambulance from the Lifeboat berth to Lorne and the Isles District General Hospital.
The Lifeboat, with its usual crisp efficiency, was re-fuelled and ready for service at 1045.
The MFV Gaelic Rose combines dive cruises with non-dive cruises. She has specialised in diving and cruising Norway and this is her first season – from August 2009 pn – offering diving and cruising on Scotland’s west coast. She mainly works the sea area from the Western Isles to Iona, including Mull, the Treshnish, the Small Isles, Coll, Tiree and Skye.
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