A casualty has been evacuated from Newtown Creek this morning (Friday) in a joint operation involving an RNLI lifeboat crew, Coastguard teams and local emergency services.
Solent Coastguard were alerted at around 10:20 that a man had become unwell and needed medical assistance by his partner on board a boat moored in the creek, prompting a multi-agency emergency response.
Due to the remote location, Lymington RNLI were tasked to the scene alongside Coastguard Rescue 104 helicopter, as well as The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team and local Police to assist in the transfer of the patient. The Coastguard helicopter, based at Lee-on-Solent, dropped a winch man at the scene to provide medical support.
Having been placed on a stretcher, the unknown gentleman – who is understood to have suffered a suspected heart attack – was taken by lifeboat to Cowes, where paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and Newport Coastguard Rescue Team met the inbound lifeboat.
Newport Coastguard’s Station Officer said:
“The vessel called a mayday as one of the crew had a medical episode which required hospital treatment.
“He wasn’t suitable for a helicopter lift so the Lymington Lifeboat brought him ashore to town quay at Cowes to be met by Newport and The Needles Coastguard Rescue Teams.”
The patient has been transferred to a land ambulance and has been conveyed to St Mary’s Hospital, Newport.
