Gale force medivac

SHETLAND coastguard’s helicopter crew battled through gales to bring an injured oil worker to hospital in Lerwick on Sunday afternoon.

The TAQA Bratani operated North Cormorant oil rig 100 miles north east of Lerwick alerted the coastguard around noon of a man with a broken leg.

It only took half an hour for the chopper crew to fly out to the North Sea platform helped by south westerly winds gusting up to 50 knots.

However the return journey took more than twice as long as they headed into the weather to deposit their man at the Clickimin landing site for onward transportation to Gilbert Bain Hospital.

At the same time the team were coordinating the treatment of a diver who missed some stops as he returned to the surface off Stromness, in Orkney.

The man was taken by ambulance to the hyperbaric chamber but did not require decompression and was given oxygen before being released.

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