On 26 December 2011, CMR (Cape Medical Response) paramedics responded to Boulders, near Simonstown, following reports of a man fallen from rocks.
In a barely accessible area amongst steep rocks at Boulders Beach the man, 45 year old Allan Evans, from Merthyr Vale, Wales, was treated for a suspected fractured femur.
Unable to remove the patient from the scene, due to the steep rocky terrain, the NSRI Simonstown duty crew were activated and a floating stokes basket stretcher was used to swim the patient, secured into the stokes floating stretcher, around the sea side of the rocks to the beach where the patient was loaded into an ambulance and transported to hospital in a serious condition.
It is suspected that the patient fell from the rocks while walking.
