A local resident fell 15 feet onto rocks and was evacuated by RNLI Dart lifeboat
The 57 year old man had been exploring Castle Cove in Dartmouth Harbour when he fell, injuring his lower back.
A South Western Ambulance crew and the Dartmouth Coastguard Search and Rescue team attended the casualty and placed him on a stretcher. The Solent Coastguard then tasked the Dart inshore lifeboat volunteers to attend and to evacuate the casualty by sea in view of the steep egress from the cove. The lifeboat crew included a paramedic and three RNLI trained First Aiders. He was placed in the lifeboat's basket stretcher and transferred to an Ambulance waiting upriver on the Higher Ferry slip.
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