Daring parachute drop sea rescue
Published: June 28, 2005
A daring parachute drop into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean early Tuesday morning by the Canadian Forces has helped rescue a 17-year-old French boy stricken with appendicitis.
The boy had been sailing with another person from Maine to the Azores when he got sick.
A container ship, the Chiquita Netherland, was first on the scene, picking up the boy from the sailboat he was on about 1,000 kilometres south of Halifax.
A Canadian Forces plane headed out from Halifax with search and rescue technicians on board. They parachuted into the waters near the ship, where they were picked up by crew members. They then provided first aid to the boy.
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The container ship is now headed toward a rendezvous with an American navy destroyer. The technicians and the patient will transfer to the warship, where a Cormorant helicopter will pick them up and fly them to St. John’s Health Science Centre.
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