Injured Crew Member Medevaced from DHT’s VLCC
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An injured crew member of a 332-meter long very large crude carrier (VLCC) DHT Lotus was medevaced on Friday night, August 17, 2018, while the vessel was passing along the South African coast.
A 38-year-old Indian crewman had to be medically evacuated to a hospital for an eye injury sustained from unknown causes, South African Sea Rescue Institute said.
The ship was fully laden and heading for Singapore at the time.
NSRI Port Elizabeth duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) and sent a sea rescue craft Spirit of Toft to rendezvous with the ship, some 12 nautical miles South of Cape Recife.
The operation was conducted in challenging weather conditions and heavy sea swells of 3 to 4 meters, Sea Rescue said.
“The patient, in a stable condition, was secured into a safety harness and transferred onto the sea rescue craft Spirit of Toft. The transferring of the patient onto the sea rescue craft took 45 minutes in the heavy sea state and the patient was transferred onto the sea rescue craft safely and without incident. The patient was brought into the Port of Port Elizabeth and he has been transported to hospital in a stable condition,” NSRI added.
The 2001-built VLCC, owned by DHT Holdings, seems to have continued its voyage toward Singapore, based on its latest AIS data, where it is supposed to arrive on September 3, 2018.
Source: World Maritime News
