Pat van Eyssen, NSRI Table Bay station commander, said: “At 10h48, on Saturday 12 June 2010, NSRI Table Bay were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority to respond to rendezvous with the Cape Town registered 80 metre fishing trawler Echalar to casualty evacuate a fisherman on-board reported to have partially amputated fingers on his right hand following an accident on-board (the injury is believed to have occurred in a winch).
“The accident occurred 40 nautical miles off-shore of the Table Bay harbour and the vessel was instructed to start heading towards Table Bay harbour and to rendezvous with the responding NSRI rescue vessel en route.
“NSRI Table Bay dispatched our rescue craft Spirit of Vodacom accompanied by an NSRI Hout Bay paramedic.
“On arrival on-scene the patient was treated for shock and it was found that 4 fingers on his right hand have been partially amputated. The injury was bandaged and after being stabilized the patient, 44 year old Michael France, from Nyanga, was transferred onto our rescue craft and brought to our NSRI rescue base at the V&A Waterfront where we were met by an ambulance and the patient was transported by ambulance to a local hospital in a stable condition for further treatment.”
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