News / Long distance call out
SHETLAND coastguard’s Sumburgh-based Rescue 102 helicopter flew 200 miles on Saturday night to bring a sick oil worker back to the islands’ for hospital treatment.
The crew were scrambled at 9.45pm to fly south east to the edge of their operating zone to collect the man from the Apache-operated jack up drilling rig Rowan Gorilla VII.
It took more than three hours before they managed to return him to Sumburgh at 1am where he was collected by an ambulance and taken to Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital.
The chopper was unable to land on the Clickimin helipad due to fog.
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