A CREWMAN HAS been airlifted to hospital in Cork this evening after taking ill on board a mussel fishing boat off West Cork, at Roaringwater Bay.
A second crew-member also received medical treatment, after being taken ashore by boat.
The six-person crew were fishing just over a kilometre from shore when they raised the alarm.
The Shannon Rescue 115 Coast Guard helicopter, Baltimore inshore RNLI lifeboat, Goleen Coast Guard and the Schull Community Inshore Rescue Service all responded to the distress calls.
Rescue 115 touched down at Cork University Hospital shortly after 9pm this evening, according to the Irish Coast Guard.
The second man was taken to shore, where an ambulance was waiting, after reporting he wasn’t feeling well.
“The two crew on board had been pumping the vessel bilges with a petrol pump when one of them became overcome with fumes and collapsed,” a spokesperson for Baltimore Lifeboat said.
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