Last Weekends Exercise. Scenario... Two boats had been fishing near the North Channel safe water mark. One boat had returned to the marina due to one person being seasick. The second boat with one person on board was going to finish the drift he was on, pull the marker float and follow the first boat back. When he hadnt returned in half an hour the skipper of the first boat tried to contact him by phone and by radio with no response. He had then re launched and gone back to see if he is OK. A short search of the area was unsuccessful, the marker float had not been pulled, so after checking with the person at the marina that the other boat hadnt returned, called marine rescue for assistance. The first boat by now was running low on fuel and is waited on site to show VMR where the second boat was last seen. The rescue dummy (Bob) was placed in the water some distance down drift of the “splash” point and some flotsam scattered down wind. The Base radio operator called out the Skipper & crew and by 0905 they were on the water. By 1014 they had recovered the “casualty”, treated him for immersion, hypothermia and suspected concussion and by 1030 they had returned to the Marina and “transferred him to the ambulance”. The exercise highlighted some areas that need to be worked on, but overall, an excellent result.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 12:15:52 +0000
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