the LAST: the Crew of the RS Ægir is taken up from the sea.
FARSUND:, the Crew on the rescue boat Ægir was at 21.30-time on Thursday evening evacuated after the boat had taken into bråttsjø and started to burn just outside the Tjørveneset.
- It is so severe that the crew are now being evacuated by helicopter. Four people are on board. It is so difficult conditions that the Sea King has asked the crew to jump overboard. It is a procedure which is only used under extreme conditions, ” said Bjorn Jarle Åmlid by HRS South Norway, while the action unfolded.
the Clock 22 confirms Åmlid that the crew of Ægir, three in number, are taken up from the sea by Sea King-helicopter. They are now being flown to the Sola air station where there are also waiting a medical check.
They are undamaged, but have gained a little bank in connection with the powerful brottsjøen they were exposed to. The rescue operation has been carried out under extremely difficult conditions, ” says Åmlid.
the Crew took on overlevelsesdrakter when the boat began to burn, and made himself ready to jump in the sea.
RS Ægir is now stuck on the waiting List. According to the Norwegian society for sea went the boat around twice, before the stranded on Storestranda, just by Marka we have seen.
Redningsselskapets press contact Tanja Krangnes informs that the company has created krisestab, and that the next of kin is notified that the crew has it good.
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Assisted in the rescue mission
Ægir was on the way to Borhaug where the Thursday night has been going on a search for two missing tourists, but was sent in return because of the difficult leteforhold. Then Ægir passed Tjørveneset by 21-time, lit the first mate Jan Adolfsen that the waves were around eight-nine metres high.
It was at the 19-time Thursday emergency services were notified that two people had fallen in the sea at Borhaug in Farsund, norway. Fire fighters, police, ambulances and rescue teams were sent to the site.
By 21-time, it was clear that there was only one person who had ended up in the lake, according to the joint rescue coordination centre. He was sent to Haukeland hospital in Bergen, with the air ambulance.
– the Person was taken on the countries of the group he or she was together with. The person in question is Russian. It was carried out cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) on the spot, ” says Åmlid by HRS.
- Condition is critical for a man, ” says operasjonleder Eyvind Formo.
The first message went out that two people in a result, with utenlanske tourists had fallen into the water from a pier.
” 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, ” says Åmlid to VG.
Difficult conditions
When rescue crews arrived at the site were very difficult weather conditions.
We are searching from the air by helicopter, but it is so high waves, that it is limited what SeaKingen get seen, enlightened Åmlid.
the Police received a message about the event clock 19.24. The first fire crew should have been on the site for ten minutes.
the first Officer on the rescue boat Ægir informed to Fædrelandsvennen that it was very tough conditions at sea when smack was on the way to the place.
- There is a lot of sea, and it blows up to 19 sekundmeter, told the first mate Jan Adolfsen.
When 21-time was Ægir on the way into the search area.
- It is monstrously difficult. There is a lot of wind and sea, and completely dark. We will search on the outside of the pier, maybe a few nautical miles out. The waves are fierce here, maybe eight-nine metres, said Adolfsen as play approached the Tjørveneset.
a Short time later came the so the message that the boat had begun to burn, and that the crew had to be evacuated.
crisis team in the emergency response
Kriseteamet in Farsund municipality were also notified of the rescue operation after the two that had fallen in the water.
Municipality’s emergency response leader is sent out to get an overview of the situation. Currently, we do not know so much, but we have people on call to help with it that would be necessary, ” says mayor Arnt Abrahamsen to Fædrelandsvennen.
A witness at the place informed to Fædrelandsvennen at 19-the time that the police, the ambulance and the fire brigade is on site. He says that the emergency services stay at the Tarebua on the inside of the breakwater.
the Case is updated.
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