Call for assistance sends RCM SAR Station 64 to sea for Emergency medical response

A photo from RCMSAR Station 64
shows the conditions at the time of a medical assistance
call for the Prince Rupert unit
(photo from organization's Facebook page)

A late afternoon call for medical assistance saw Prince Rupert's Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station 64 members scramble to their boats on Thursday, taking to the waters of Hecate Strait at 3:20 PM, less than eleven minutes from the time of the call for help.

The Prince Rupert group travelled some 20 nautical miles to Squataree, near the Kinahan Islands taking roughly thirty minutes to make the journey, joining a zodiac from the Canadian Coast Guard station at Prince Rupert on the medical call.

The Kinahan Islands (seen here south of Digby Island) make for a reference
point for a response Thursday night near Squataree by Prince Rupert's Station 64
Marine Rescue Crewfrom the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Unit
(Map from Marine Tracker.com)

As they outline on a Facebook post from Thursday evening, the two crews worked together to load up the stretcher into the Station 64 vessel, the patient who was part of a crew of a fishing boat was then transported back to Prince Rupert and was handed over to the BC Ambulance service for further attention.

You can review their account of the travel across North Coast seas of 4 to 5 foot waves and a wind of 25 Knots from the organizations Facebook page here.

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