NSRI volunteers are on a roll
It has been all hands on deck for Plettenberg Bay sea rescue volunteers over the past week with several incidents requiring their assistance.
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The latest incident was on Sunday 18 August when the local National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) assisted a woman on board a commercial tourist vessel, who had suffered a back injury.
Plett NSRI station commander Marc Rodgers said they responded after receiving reports just before 11:30 of a 62-year-old Spanish woman having suffered a back injury.
He added that the tourist boat beached at the town’s main beach, where the crew secured her to a stretcher and she was transferred into a Med-Life ambulance to be transported to the hospital.
- On Friday 16 August the duty crew responded to another incident, this time at Robberg 5 beach. They received reports of a surfer who had been injured after being struck on the head by a surfboard.
Rodgers said they found a 16-year-old New York youngster, on a school tour in Plettenberg Bay, on the beach and treated him for a head injury. They also provided cervical spinal immobilisation as a precaution and secured him to a stretcher before he was transported to hospital by a Med-Life ambulance.
- On Wednesday 14 August another American youngster needed assistance after suffering a leg injury during a hike along the Robberg Nature Reserve.
Rodgers said they received reports of the incident during the late afternoon, at about 17:20, and when the crew arrived on the scene on the south side of Island Beach, the 16-year-old from Miami was treated for a leg injury he had suffered while hiking with a group. He was then secured to their purpose-designed rescue stretcher and taken through the surf to their sea rescue craft behind the breakers. From the NSRI sea rescue station, the boy was transferred into a Med-Life ambulance for transport to the hospital.
The NSRI also assisted the remaining 42 students and seven staff members, who were all Americans on a student tour, to get back to the reserve’s car park without incident.
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Source: Knysna Plett Herald News