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A SERIOUSLY ILL crew member has been airlifted from a Spanish fishing vessel off the south west coast of Ireland.
The emergency medevac (medical evacuation) was requested by Spanish and UK maritime authorities after a crew member was reported to have suffered a possible stroke.
Watch officers at the Irish Coast Guard’s marine rescue sub centre on Valentia Island in Kerry mounted and coordinated the medevac operation.
The Shannon based Irish Coast Guard helicopter, Rescue 115, was tasked at around 2.00pm and requested to proceed to the location about 80 minutes south west of Shannon.
In the meantime, the trawler was requested to proceed north east towards the Irish coast to reduce the distance the helicopter would have to travel to rendezvous with it.
An Irish Air Corps CASA CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft was also tasked to provide top cover for the mission. Rescue 01, which had been on patrol off the west coast at the time, was requested to assist Rescue 115 with top cover radio communications as the helicopter would be too far from land to maintain direct contact with the Irish Coast Guard marine rescue coordination centre.
Rescue 115 reached the vessel at around 3.20pm and a winchman/paramedic was lowered onto the deck to prepare the patient for airlifting.
The ill crew member was winched on board the helicopter in a matter of minutes and was flown to Shannon Airport from where he was transferred into the care of the National Ambulance Service and transported to University Hospital Limerick for treatment.
An Irish Coast Guard spokesperson said: “The Shannon based Coast Guard helicopter successfully evacuated a casualty from a Spanish fishing vessel off the south west coast earlier this afternoon. The mission was carried out on foot of a joint request from UK and Spanish authorities. The casualty was landed at Shannon airport for transfer into the care of the HSE.”
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there had been no instances of this flaw being used – but thanks to the journal you have provided more with a step by step directions on how to hack into phones… Cheers
To be far someone I doubt someone with the knowledge to use such a backdoor for malicious purposes is going to have found out about a backdoor via of the journal.
Publicity means the issue will be sorted quicker. The reason there’s no instances reported may be because people were unaware they were being hacked. Now they can be vigilant. Hackers already know this flaw if it’s made it to mainstream media, trust me.
And to be fair about the start of that comment it’s Monday.
Don’t know anyone who would use hangouts for SMS its a wreck head for this.
This vulnerability has been known for a while now
That’s what you get for choosing android over apple.
I’m still uncertain as to whether or not Emma is a troll or a simpleton.
I’m leaning towards troll.
Watch out for the hipster Android fanboys Emma!
Lean away Mark,
No system is going to be 100% secure, but some are better than others. You cannot fix stupid.
Sent from my iPhone.
What if Hangouts isn’t your default sms app?
If I’m not mistaken Apple have a few flaws as well.
Than you’re most likely safe. The title should say ‘Google Hangouts has a serious flaw that could allow hackers in with one text’.
That you are safe, as the exploit only affects Hangouts so the article title is a bit misleading
Oooh, what does this text say then? I am being the King of Nigeria, please give me unrestricted root access to your phone?
Why am I not surprised? When are people going to wake up to the Android scam and switch to the safety of the iPhone.
Sean bluntly that’s a silly comment. Nothing is 100% secure so your advice is use whatever phone you want ? Some phones are more secure than others. iPhones are more secure than Androids. Partly this is basic design. Android was originally designed as an open system. But mainly it is because a large proportion of Android users do not update to the latest more secure software version. There are numerous reasons for this but essentially the Android market is fragmented among many different phone manufacturers. Apple on the other hand is a single monolith. Finally Google owns the Android system which is designed to facilitate the mining of your data so that advertising can be sold. That is how Google make their money. Apple on the other hand make their money from their hardware.apple is safer but as many people don’t like it they use other systems. Fair enough. Everything is a trade off.
I have the Messages app that was on my SGS5 when I got it. I use Text Secure as my default app. Can I delete Hangouts as I never use it? Tia, Quinton.
You should be able to delete hangouts but you are not at risk if it is not your default SMS app
No, you can’t delete Hangouts (well, it may be possible by rooting the phone). However, you can disable it by going to Settings->Apps->Hangouts and then selecting Disable
Thanks for that, both of you!
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