Originally Posted by
SASless
I shall pose a rhetorical question that calls for no posted answer.
Losing the Tip of a finger....and being in pain by itself is generally not life threatening.
What if the Crew of 116 and 118 had decided to wait till Daylight to make the flight....and in the mean while the Trawler had headed towards shore. How might this have turned out?
In the mean time, septicaemia - which I read somewhere was the reason for the consulted Doc's nod to an airlift - gets an Eight hour headstart...
Given the now ubiquitous litigious culture, what Doc isn't going to call worst case scenario?