News / Weekend coastguard activity
SHETLAND’S coastguard rescue helicopter has had a busy few days flying people to hospital.
On Saturday morning SAR102, aka Oscar Charlie, flew 90 miles north east of Sumburgh to the EnQuest-operated Heather platform to airlift a crewman with unspecified medical problems to Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital.
The man was taken to hospital by ambulance, attended by the coastguard paramedic.
On Sunday evening SAR102 flew to the BP-operated Magnus oilfield to pick up a man suffering from chest pains and take him to Lerwick.
Then in the early hours of Monday the helicopter was off again to fly a woman from Kirkwall’s Balfour Hospital to Aberdeen, after Shetland coastguard co-ordinated her evacuation from the isle of Shapinsay by the local lifeboat having received an emergency call soon after 4am.
The Lerwick based coastguard team have also called the bomb disposal squad to the Orkney isle of Hoy to deal with dangerous container someone found washed up on the beach on Sunday afternoon.
The container measured 20 inches by five inches, and was marked as the property of the US Navy. Its contents were phosphorous.
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