ALB SHOUT 12: 14-04-2024

Incident Date14-05-2024
Launch Instruct12:50
Lifeboat UsedALB
Location of CasualtyTorbay area.

After completing an exercise with Dartmouth 85 RIB and Froward Point NCI lookout, the ALB was just heading back into the Bay, rounding Berry Head, when tasked directly to assist a trawler where a crew member was having an asthma attack.
Returned to area off Scabbacombe Head and escorted the fishing vessel in as a Paramedic was onboard the ALB, at the request of the doctor advising Solent Coastguard.
Crew member was handed over direct from the trawler to Coastguard personnel and waiting Ambulance crew.



Published by Derek Hore

Torbay RNLI and Torbay RNLI fundraisers website Editor

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