Head injury
Oban Lifeboat was tasked by Stornoway Coastguard shortly before 2pm this afternoon (Friday) to assist the Scottish Ambulance Service with a casualty with a serious head injury on a yacht at Dunstaffnage Marina.
The person had been hurt whilst sailing and had been brought into the marina onboard the yacht.
Due to the casualty’s position and the significance of the injuries, the paramedics on scene decided the easiest and safest way to extract the injured person would be to place then into the lifeboat’s basket stretcher and to take them onboard the lifeboat.
The Oban Lifeboat moored alongside the yacht to allow the person to be transferred safely across.
The lifeboat then travelled to the lifeboat station berth in Oban where the injured person was transferred into an ambulance to be taken to hospital.
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