Doctor risks life for rescue
PA Wanganui A Wanganui Base Hospital doctor yesterday risked his life to tend to an unconscious seaman 12 miles off the Wanganui coast, the “Wanganui Chronicle” reported. Dr Brian Lunn was flown in a scoop net, 25m below Wanganui Aero Work’s Bell Jet Ranger helicopter to the Korean squid jigger Poong San No. 12. There he tended to Yeong Sheol Park, aged j 26, of Korea, who was
unconscious from a head injury. When the boat was about a’mile offshore the seaman was placed in the Wanganui Harbour Board’s pilot launch and then taken to the base hospital. Last evening Mr Park was reported to be in a satisfactory condition. He suffered his injury when he fell down a companion way on the squid boat. The helicopter pilot, Charles Anderson, told the newspaper the rescue was the first of its type he had done iiM5 years of flying.
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