Marine search and rescue assisted a woman who suffered a gash on her head aboard a boat Monday.
Nanaimo Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue centre received a call from an American vessel south of Dodd Narrows near Cedar-by-the-Sea at about 3:20 p.m. on Monday. The caller said the woman had fallen onboard and struck her head. She was bleeding, unconscious and marine search and rescue assessed her and administered first aid, said Jerry Berry, coxswain.
“She was transferred to the fast response vessel and taken to [the Nanaimo Port Authority dock] where we were met by emergency medical services and Nanaimo Fire Rescue and she was taken to Nanaimo Regional General Hospital and the port made arrangements for the vessel, which was called Pacific Wind, to have moorage in the boat basin and we transported the owner to the hospital,” said Berry.
Berry said he didn’t know the woman’s current status, nor the cause of the incident.
“They were anchoring and I don’t know if the boat jerked or what. I don’t know any of those details,” said Berry. “She did fall and strike her head quite severely.”
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