{"id":3243,"date":"2019-10-04T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2019-10-04T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T08:07:13","slug":"two-seafarers-evacuated-from-boxship-off-table-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/two-seafarers-evacuated-from-boxship-off-table-bay\/3243\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Seafarers Evacuated from Boxship off Table Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Two crew members have been evacuated from an unnamed containership off the South African coast, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On October 1, NSRI Table Bay duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) following a request for a patient evacuation to hospital from the boxship approaching Table Bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the seafarers suffered an injury and another had a medical complaint, according to NSRI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC), a Government Health EMS duty doctor, Telkom Maritime Radio Services, TNPA and NSRI Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) assisted in coordination and logistics for the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A rescue craft accompanied by rescue paramedics was launched upon received the request, NSRI added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSRI reached the ship 14 nautical miles offshore Table Bay in calm sea conditions and the crewmen were transferred onto the sea rescue craft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both patients have been transported to a local hospital and are in stable conditions, NSRI further said.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two crew members have been evacuated from an unnamed containership off the South African coast, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.&nbsp; On October 1, NSRI Table Bay duty crew were activated by the Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) following a request for a patient evacuation to hospital from the boxship approaching Table Bay. One &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[276,690,421],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","category-news","tag-boxship","tag-nsri","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}