PERRANUTHNOE is a small village on the South Coast of Cornwall, just East of Marazion, there is a Car Park and sloping access to a safe sandy beach and the beachside Cabin Cafe. It has The Victoria Inn a superb multi award winning pub, which serves super food both lunchtimes & evenings, - a Church dating back as far as 1160. The Lynfield Centre which houses The Cowhouse Gallery, The Peppercorn Cafe and a hairdressers.

Monday 16 July 2012

Just noticed that Scillonian III was only just sailing down Mount's Bay at  7.30pm which is more than 30 minutes late.  Took a look to see what speed she'd been doing - it wasn't the speed, but where she'd been that made her late - wonder why she took the detour !
It turns out she had a sick passenger that had to be air lifted off by Sea King from RNAS Culdrose
  "The RNAS Culdrose helicopter was called out to the Scillonian III at just after 6pm last night.
A 75-year-old man on board had collapsed with a suspected heart attack
The boat was off Land’s End when the patient and his wife, together with their luggage, was winched up before they were flown to Treliske." courtesy Scilly Today.
for photo  click  https://twitter.com/amanda__cook/status/224944407370137603/photo/1
I gather that sadly the gentleman has died, but I'm sure it gave him the best chance possible.
Posted by Perranlady at 19:46

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous18 July 2012 at 04:52

    Well Sue not a great post to comment on, if you had not posted it up here I for one would not have known why Scillonian had veared her course and was 30 mins late, as you state above the Helicopter probably did give him the best chance, unfortunately the out come you report from "Scilly Today" was drastic, I know everything would have been done for him.

    Heiko

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    1. Perranlady18 July 2012 at 12:43

      Morning Heiko, yes a sad end indeed - But both SCIII & the helicopters are well practised in this procedure & it was obviously deemed to be his only chance. I gather the gentleman's wife was also lifted up to the Helicopter - must hace been very frightening for her, being fully conscious ! Sue

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