Oban Lifeboat launches in gale force winds
Oban RNLI Lifeboat launched on service today (Wednesday 11 January) to undertake their second medivac in 24 hours.
The volunteer crew were launched to evacuate a casualty from the Isle of Mull with a life threatening illness. The lifeboat departed in a gale force westerly wind, arriving at Craignure by 11.38am. With the assistance of the Craignure Coast Rescue Team, the casualty was safely transferred aboard the lifeboat.
Oban lifeboat departed Craignure, arriving back in Oban by 12.13pm, where the casualty was transferred on to a waiting ambulance with the help of Oban's Coast Rescue Team.
Oban lifeboat then returned to station where she was refuelled and made ready for service again by 12.30pm.
This was the second medivac in 24 hours for Oban lifeboat, in what's proven to be a busy month; a total of 6 calls outs in the first 11 days of 2017.
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