A stitch in time..

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Next time you think all that gear in the medical kit is a waste of space, think again! I'm amazed at them setting out for an ocean passage without simple things like sutures and local.
 
Was reported differently here in NZ. Typically

As Mr Blackwood held the huge gash together, Mrs Blackwood used the needle and put in 23 stitches – using all of the sterile sutures they had got from a doctor for their emergency medical kit before they left Whangarei last week.

"My mum would be proud because I don't even knit or sew," she told NZPA today.

Think there have now been 4 such rescues made from yachts in the Pacific north of NZ in that week due to weather. A coincidence was that one crew was taken off a yacht by the same merchant ship skipper who did one of the rescues in the June storm, back how ever many years it was, when Quartermaster was lost with all crew and a number of other yachts abandoned North of NZ.

John
 
There is a fantastic bit of kit that does easy stiching. I had one borrowed from a friendly doctor for an extended offshore race. Not cheap to own one, but then again...

Rgds
George
 
There I go believing the media again! Like the thread about the Hanse 371 sinking It's clear that one should never make judgements on the basis of a news report.
 
Hi SnowyCat

Yes, I would make no claims to which report is correct, but I guess they both cannot be.

The media are sure inclined to embellish things. Sort of examples like when the cats in The Race were approaching Cook Strait (from the East) reports here were saying how they wanted a good strong southerly to get through on (which would be straight in their faces /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif) and planes that crash always seem to "disappear off radar" even if a thousand miles out at sea, etc, etc and so it goes on.

I worked for several years with an ex MP and he reckoned that most of the news stories were written by 20 year old "girls" (his word) who had managed to scrape through English at school. Sort of smirked at that 'til one day when I was working on a military radar project and the media wanted to do an article on it. So we took them, which turned out to be 2 around 20 year old "girls", to a primary radar site and very careful to explain that the radar was for "military" training use and also support civil aviation as well. At the site they were more interested, in a seemingly hopeful way, in who might look up their dresses when they climbed the tower and article comes out headlined and in the body as it being a "War Radar", etc, etc /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif. But that is how it goes.

John
 
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