News / Oil and fish workers airlifted
SHETLAND coastguard airlifted two oil workers to hospital in Aberdeen on Sunday, but could not help a Scottish fisherman on Friday night because the sea was too rough.
The Rescue 102 helicopter was scrambled at Sumburgh around 9.30am on Sunday to fly to the Dunbar platform around 80 miles east of Shetland where a man was complaining of severe chest pain.
However en route a call came in from the neighbouring North Alwyn platform where another man was suffering similar problems. The chopper crew picked both patients up and on medical advice flew them to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.
The Shetland coastguard crew had a tougher time on Friday night when they tried to airlift a fisherman from the Inverness registered Apollo who had partially severed his finger and crushed his hand while working 70 miles south east of Shetland.
Conditions at sea were so rough the coastguard winchman was unable to land on the boat, so the Apollo headed for Lerwick harbour in the teeth of a north westerly gale.
Nine hours later at around 3am the man was landed at Lerwick harbour and taken to Gilbert Bain Hospital where he was treated.
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