HALIFAX Julie Smith is taking things day by day. Her fiancée, Andrew Saulnier, has a long road ahead of him after the 24-year-old fisherman was seriously injured onboard on a lobster boat Saturday morning. He s got a lot of surgeries to go, but he just wants to be home, Smithsaid. Emergency crews were called to the vessel on Camp Cove Wharf Road in Lower Argyle, N.S., just before 5 a.m. The man had been working in a fishing vessel around the engine, on some machinery around the engine area, and the vessel suddenly went into gear, which caused him to suffer some injuries, said Nova Scotia RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Chris Marshall.
RCMP believe the injury of a fisher, Andrew Saulnier, is not suspicious at this time.
Provincial public information officer for the RCMP, Corporal Chris Marshall, is commenting on the incident which took place on Saturday. He says at 4:43 a.m. on Saturday Yarmouth rural RCMP were called to Camp Cove Wharf Rd. in Lower Argyle where Saulnier had been injured on a fishing vessel.
They determined that Saulnier had been working in the engine area of a boat, when it went into gear. Marshall says he was caught in the machinery near the engine and suffered life-threatening injuries.
EHS transported Saulnier to Yarmouth Regional Hospital, he was then moved by LifeFlight to Halifax.
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