Coastguards in Falmouth oversaw two medical evacuations in the space of seven hours last night.
Members of the coastguard rescue team had been about to start water rescue training when they were diverted to Boscawen Park in Truro, to set up an emergency helicopter landing site.
A crewman had to be lifted from a tanker out at sea and taken for treatment at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, but with the helicopter unable to land at Treliske the coastguards set up an alternative site in the park.
This is a designated secondary landing site, should the hospital's landing pad be out of action for maintenance or unavailable due to poor weather.
One of the team sets off a flare to alert the helicopter to the landing site
Once on land, the crewman was taken by ambulance to the hospital.
Little did the coastguard team realise that they would be back at the park only a few hours later, however, at 1.30am today.
Once again this was to set up an emergency landing site for the coastguard rescue helicopter 924, which this time was coming from St Mary's on the Isles of Scilly.
The casualty was again taken on by ambulance to hospital, after landing in the park.
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