NEWS | Wednesday, 18 February 2009

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Three sailors were urgently medically evacuated from onboard their merchant sea vessel by helicopter yesterday, after they were seriously injured during training.
At around 1pm, the Armed Forces of Malta’s Rescue Co-ordination Centre at Luqa Barracks was notified by the merchant tanker Stavenger Prince that it required to medically evacuate three of its crew members following a training accident during a life-boat drill.
The vessel was located some 12 nautical miles east of Malta, and an Italian Military Mission AB212 rescue-helicopter was scrambled to the location, flown by an Italo-Maltese crew. The AFM rescuers onboard found that the injured sailors had sustained broken legs and arms, and suspected severe spinal injuries.
The injured sailors were Filippinos Bernabi Realingo, 32, Alexander Gonzalez, 33, and Indian Kreshna Kumar Dwevedi.

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