The SAR machine, based at Portland in Dorset, carried out the operations on Saturday, 12 June. First, the Coastguard responded to a call from the dive vessel Redcrest about a male diver showing signs of decompression illness. The casualty was flown from Swanage to Poole Hyperbaric Centre, in Parkstone.
Later in the afternoon, the helicopter was called out to airlift a diver from the dive boat Skin Deep, in Weymouth Bay. The man, showing DCI symptoms, was also flown to the recompression chamber in Poole.
Just minutes after finishing the sortie, the aircraft was dispatched once more to the vessel Miss Pattie, in Lyme Bay. Another male diver, showing signs of DCI, was airlifted to the Poole facility.
A spokeswoman at Poole Hyperbaric Centre has confirmed to Divernet that the three men were successfully accommodated by the two chambers on site. All recovered completely following sessions in the pot.
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