On Monday 19 September at 9.43pm both St David’s RNLI all-weather and inshore lifeboats with their volunteer crews launched on service to the aid of a 65yr old male who had collapsed.
The casualty, who was slipping in and out of consciousness, was in the farm house on Ramsey Island.
Both lifeboats arrived at the island at 9.50pm. Initially two crew members went ashore with a first aid kit and oxygen bottle, quickly followed by another two crewmembers taking a stretcher with them.
After assessing the casualty they administered oxygen and placed him onto the stretcher.
They proceeded to carry the casualty down a slippery path with very little light to the harbour where he was placed aboard the all-weather lifeboat at 10.20pm.
He was then wrapped up in blankets for the journey back to the lifeboat station slipway where he was placed into the care of paramedics and a local coastguard team at 10.32pm.
The lifeboat at this point had to stand off while the paramedics were attending to the casualty.
Both lifeboats eventually rehoused at 11.20pm.
