Lose leg or life? Amazing survival story from Tasmania.

[MVP]

This dude Valdas Bieliauskas is one tough lithuanian mother... er. There is 2 part video on Youtube about it. Thanks to Aussie rescue teams who were able to save his life.

Inside the moment rescuers knew they had to harm a dying man to save him

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to the brink.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Rubashov]

This dude Valdas Bieliauskas is one tough lithuanian mother... er. There is 2 part video on Youtube about it. Thanks to Aussie rescue teams who were able to save his life.

Inside the moment rescuers knew they had to harm a dying man to save him

When a white-water rafter fell into the Franklin River, it triggered an extraordinary rescue mission that pushed everyone to the brink.

www.abc.net.au

Watched it the last couple of weeks on Australian story really bloody good.





The dude was incredibly lucky to survive, Tasmania is the smallest state, has a population of about 550,000, its also one of the oldest states because most of the young people leave for the mainland. Having watched the show I'm surprised that Tassie had the resources to sustain the rescue effort to begin with, and then have the capacity at Royal Hobart to save the man. He's a lucky bastard RHH just went through a massive upgrade that included the building of the helipad, but its still a "small" hospital in terms of trauma. Its fairly common for doctors to fly down to Hobart to perform specialist procedures and not uncommon for critical patients that are somewhat stable being flown up to the Melbourne for treatment and specialist care in their ICU.

But yeah Australian Story is a good little show.