Durban medics rescue man aboard ship after stroke
Local emergency workers have rescued a foreign national from out at sea, after the 30-year-old suffered a stroke, aboard the carrier he was working on.
Police Divers from the SAPS Search and Rescue Unit in Durban as well as the eThekwini Metro Police's and Metro Police's Search and Rescue Unit - assisted with the complex operation, some ten kilometres off shore at Outer Anchorage yesterday afternoon.
Netcare 911's Shawn Herbst says just after lunch, a paramedic was dispatched to the National Sea Rescue Institute's base to board a rescue craft which took him to the ship.
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