Search and rescue

[skybluebarry]

helicopter going up and down the river for the last hour

We were out in the garden having dinner and listening to it. A bit of a downer on a Beautiful day that not everyone is having a good day.

 

[Roxetten]

Yeah, they passed over earlier. I guess they were heading in the direction of the CUH.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Saw it earlier too, flying low.

 

[Meridian]

Coast Guard airlifts injured crewman from deck of ship moored in Port of Cork

17/06/2017 - 20:22:57

A crewman on a tanker berthed in the Port of Cork has been airlifted to hospital with a suspected broken leg after an accident on board the vessel, writes Eoin English.

The casualty was winched from the bow of the Norwegian-flagged oil and chemical tanker, Bergstraum, which was berthed at the Tivoli docks east of Cork city around 7pm this evening by the crew of the Waterford-based Coast Guard search and rescue helicopter, Rescue 117.

The crewman is understood to have suffered the leg injury when either a cable or rope snapped as he worked on board, striking one of his legs.

Members of Cork City Fire Brigade and Crosshaven Coast Guard attended the scene. But the fire service was unable to remove the casualty from the vessel safely.

 

[dennisfallen]

Those hawsers are deadly when they snap under tension. Sounds bad when the fire brigade couldn't get him off. Hope he's OK.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

The chopper was in action again earlier. Flying even lower than yesterday.

 

[Smaug]

Child fell off a pier in Youghal earlier, fishing for crabs apparently. Out of water and in hospital now.

 

[Smaug]

Ex-lifeboat men pull boy, 11, from water in Youghal

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/ex-lifeboat-men-pull-boy-11-from-water-in-youghal-452834.html

 

[Beaty]

I'm surprised there hasn't been more drownings...every Azores High brings multiple normally.

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