A person rescued from the sea by Farsund – rescue boat took the guy – VG

A man is flown to hospital in Bergen, after falling in the sea at Borhaug outside Farsund, norway on Thursday night.

Bjørn Jarle Åmlid in the joint rescue coordination centre says to VG that it was a foreign man who ended up in the lake.

It was all the time uncertain whether there was one or two people in the sea. The reason was, according to Åmlid that only one from his company were missing, while witnesses believed to have seen two persons.

– What has happened is that a person has been taken by the surge peradventure, and gone out in the water, and then have another in the entourage threw a jacket for him. The jacket is the reason that we have suspected that there have been two people in the water, ” explains Åmlid.

the Person who was taken up from the water, is now being flown to Bergen by air ambulance.

– There was a follow on to six people who were on the pier at Borhaug in Farsund, also, there were two who fell into the water, said alarmsentraloperatør Anita Odberg at 110 centre to the VG before it was known that there was only talk about one person.

Fire in the rescue boat – three saved up

It was put in big resources in the search for the person. In addition to the rescue helicopter and redningsdykkere participated! Ægir in the search.

Clock 21.30 tells Åmlid to VG that also Ægir has encountered a powerful surge peradventure, and that the boat then has had a fire on board.

TOOK the GUY: RS Ægir

Photo: Redningsselskapet

– Therefore we have had to stop the search at sea, ” says Åmlid to VG.

Åmlid describe! as “heavily damaged”, and tells that the crew now to be evacuated by Sea King helicopter.

– In this case, the selected helicopter to use a very rare procedure that is only used in extreme cases where it is deemed too dangerous to put a rescuer down on the vessel to be evacuated. The helicopter let off a little on the leeward side of the vessel, and then jumped the crew one by one and were picked up by helicopter before the next man jumped, explains Åmlid.

Around the clock 22 confirm the joint rescue coordination centre that the three crew now rescued from the sea. Åmlid tell that the conditions is not well with the crew.

Extensive rescue operation

– Leteforholdene is very difficult. It is dark and there is a big sea. It makes it difficult to apply both from the air and from the water, said Åmlid to the VG before the person had been taken up.

– We can’t use divers in these conditions. But we seek with the boats from the inside of the breakwater, with the rescue boat and with a SeaKing rescue helicopter, he said.

TO the HOSPITAL: A person was transported to Haukeland with the helicopter.

Photo: Svein Morten Havaas, Lists / Lister24 / NTB scanpix

the Police received a message about the event clock 19.24 on Thursday night.

Heard the cries for help

Øyenvitnet Marius Jansen (18) stood on the beach with a friend when the accident occurred.

– We saw that there was someone on the end of the pier, and I said to my friend “see, it didn’t go well.” Shortly afterwards we hear of it as similar to two cries for help, ” says Jansen.

Together with her friend la, he ran out to help.

We met some foreigners, and so the person in the sea. We stayed there until the fire department and ambulance arrived, ” says Jansen.

He told his story first to the Newspaper Agder.