Rescue mission
Got a phone call at around 10 last night from a doctor at the local hospital asking if it was at all possible for us at sea rescue to go out and pick up a deckie of a prawn trawler who had a suspected heart attack. The trawler was then about 15nm NW of Carnarvon and making its way in at 6 knots with a 2-2.5 metre lovely short sharp chop and 25 knot winds.
We got away at 11 and met them around 10nm NW, managed to get him off on our second attempt by sticking the nose of the niaid in on his port stern behind the trawl booms long enough for the deckies on both boats to pass him over. Not a nice task when you have the stern of a steel trawler about 2 metres high rising and falling some 2 metres and you've only got about 3 metres of room to stick the side of the bow against, its not something we practice doing in daylight let alone at midnight with limited visiblity.
Took us about an hour to get back in to port and off to hospital with a rather uncomfortable ride home with quite a few very sharp landings that anyone who has fished in the seas up here will never forget. By the time we'd got him away and the boat back in its air berth it was nearly 0200, one can think of better ways to spend time at but with two good deckies to help it was a successful trip.
Rang the hospital this morning to find he's in a stable condition and will be staying in for 4-5 days, good news considering he didn't look to crash hot when we got him in.
UncutTriggerInWA
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Great Job
Heart attacks are not a pleasant thing (I know). It's a great result though. Well done.
Vince.
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pom down under
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well done m8, a job well
well done m8, a job well done :) good to hears he gunna be ok
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Wes F
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Excellent job to all the
Excellent job to all the people involved. You fellas risk so much for other people. Good to hear everything worked out and the bloke is on the mend
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Rick
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Top Effort
Well done to all, would not have been an easy thing to do in trying conditions
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Ryan C
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rescue mission
nice work mate , good to know there are people kind enough to give thier time in adverse conditions to save lives in this day and age. well done!! cheers
Tomcat
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Yes
Great effort
abeldog
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Well Done
John, worth your weight in GOLD!!!!!
catch up on Saturday night or Sunday sometime.
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Tony Halliday
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well done guys, it's times
well done guys, it's times like this that you guys are the true heros in our community and not some trumped up footy players.
take care and keep safe,
Tony
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Paul N
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fantastic work
Hope I never need your services but it is great to know people like you are there to risk it all when the chips are down .
A job well done and a big thanks from the boating comunity .
Paul
big john
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Top effort Carnarvonite!
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fisho-ron
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well done mate, hats of to
well done mate, hats of to you guys!!!
Browny
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Yep. Gotta hand it to the Sea
Yep. Gotta hand it to the Sea Rescue bods......they certainly put in 100% effort to help keep us all safe!!
Good onya Carnarvonite!
I just love Exmouth: Its a quaint little drinking town with a fishing problem!
meglodon
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well done guys
dark night big seas small boat - all the ingrediants you need for a tragity thanks to guts and skill you pulled of a great rescue well done canarvonite
thesupervisor
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you guys deserve medals for
you guys deserve medals for the things you do
im sure the deckie is very thankful
keep up with the storys
i really enjoy your storys of rescues
and it makes us all learn things can go very bad out at sea even in experianced comercial boats
and thats why we should all have the right saftey equip
getting the bottom line final answer from a bunch of blokes that use false names and put smiley faces at the end of paragraphs is not the best place in the world to get the information you seek.
Faulkner Family
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geez John, you seem to get
geez John, you seem to get all the good jobs. well done for your efforts and its good to hear the guy will be ok. knowing what shark bay can throw at you i could only imagine what you guys went through to get the guy safely back to shore.
sea rescue does a fantastic job all up and down the coast. all for the benifet of the boating community weather it be pro or rec.
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Batty
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Well done
It's you guys that give us te confidence to go out there,
Job well done.
Lifes a game but fishing is serious !!!
aalfred
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Well done
Thanks to guys like you, others can still enjoy another day!
soupster51
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Great Stuff
That's a good news story for a change. Nothing but doom and gloom on TV news. That would have been good to see on the box. Great work mate.
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carnarvonite
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Thanks
Thanks for all the comments, its nice to get some support for the work we do.
Here in Carnarvon, like most other country groups, are in need of more volunteers and especially younger ones as most of us are retired [which is good for coverage during the working week] but on some jobs that require many hours it takes its toll on some of our people's bodies, where on a younger person it has no effect.
So those who have the time to spare please give it some thought about volunteering. All the training is free and the certificates received are recognised Oz wide.