A surfer in Cornwall was attacked by a seal, broke his leg when pummelled by a huge wave, had to be rescued by a friend and then was told he was too tall to fit in the air ambulance sent to carry him to hospital.
Nathan Phillips’ own surfboard smashed into his leg so hard that it broke it in two, and as he struggled out in the waves, he was brought to shore by a friend on a paddle board. But the ordeal didn’t end there, Cornwall Live reported.
The air ambulance sent to ferry him to hospital was a smaller replacement helicopter than the one normally used by Cornwall Air Ambulance, and medics on board treated him, but said it was too small to fit the 6ft 2ins surfer on board. So he waited two hours looking at the open fracture of his leg, sitting in his friend’s van waiting for a land ambulance, and eventually made it to hospital after the accident on Friday (March 3).
