TOM SAWYER

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Medevac off Travemünde

On Sep 14, 2017, a German trucker aboard the "Tom Sawyer" complained about abdominal pain while the ferry, enroute from Travemünde to Trelleborg, was about 18 miles NE of Travemünde. The lifeboat "Berlin" which was already on sea during an exercise with a helicopter, alerted a doctor and returned to Laboe to embark him, while a helicopter which also had participated in the exercise remained on a waiting position on the Kiel Fjord. The doctor was then hoisted aboard and taken to the "Tom Sawyer". He was dropped off half an hour after the alert and started medical treatment of the patient. Both were then hoisted and taken to the university hospital in Travemünde. After the patient was delivered, the helicpoter rendezvoused again with the "Berlin" in the late evening and dropped off the doctor. German report with photos: https://www.seenotretter.de/aktuelles/seenotfaelle/ansicht/news/rendezvous-ueber-see-aus-uebung-wird-ernstfall/