At 03h30 on Saturday 14 December NSRI Port Elizabeth responded sea rescue craft SPIRIT OF TOFT, accompanied by a Gardmed paramedic, to rendezvous with the fishing stern trawler HARVEST LINDIWE that had requested medical assistance from the Transnet National Ports Authority for a 34 year old crewman onboard, Anton van Wyk, from Macassar, Cape Town, suffering a head injury after being struck on the back of the head by a crane hook while fishing.
On arrival on-scene the patient was stabilized and transferred onto the NSRI Port Elizabeth sea rescue craft SPIRIT OF TOFT and he was brought to shore with full C-Spine immobilization as a precautionary measure and he was taken to hospital, in a stable condition, by a Gardmed ambulance.
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