Friday, September 15, 2006
By Land or By Sea
This is the Coast Guard boat that we worked with on this call out at the Channel Islands. The call came in to us as an injury so our engine responded to the Coast Guard quarters and we loaded up our medical gear and went aboard. The Coast Guard brought us out to the scene, which was a dive boat just off Anacapa Island. 
Here is a close up picture of the end of Anacapa Island, the "key hole". Here is Mo with the patient who had a cut above his left eye. There was a nurse on board the dive boat so he was bandaged up upon our arrival. We just made sure that his vital signs were ok and kept him calm.
It was quite a speedy ride out to the Island. It took just about 35 minutes and we were jetting right along. Here is a view of the island just as we went out of the harbor.
An interesting call. The Coast Guard personnel were all so professional and helpful. The hardest part was gettting our patient from the dive boat to the Coast Guard boat, we actually had to go to the back side of the island where the water was a bit calmer to do the transfer. Always something new in our day!
Here is a close up picture of the end of Anacapa Island, the "key hole". Here is Mo with the patient who had a cut above his left eye. There was a nurse on board the dive boat so he was bandaged up upon our arrival. We just made sure that his vital signs were ok and kept him calm.
It was quite a speedy ride out to the Island. It took just about 35 minutes and we were jetting right along. Here is a view of the island just as we went out of the harbor. An interesting call. The Coast Guard personnel were all so professional and helpful. The hardest part was gettting our patient from the dive boat to the Coast Guard boat, we actually had to go to the back side of the island where the water was a bit calmer to do the transfer. Always something new in our day!
# posted by Surfwahine @ 9:56 PM 
