Offshore airlift

Shetland News @shetnews

3 August 2014 12:26

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TWO offshore oil workers were taken by helicopter to the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick on Saturday afternoon. One was airlifted from the Ninian North platform around 100 miles north-east of Sumburgh. Immediately afterwards the helicopter set off called to collect a sick man from an offshore unit in the Foinaven field to the north west of Shetland.

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