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Bulk carrier where the poisoning occurred.
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On 7th February, 2008 at 18:11, a Romanian bulk carrier (Figure 1) navigating 80 km north of the island of Ouessant, sailing from Rouen in France to Cairo in Egypt, with a load of approximately eighty-thousand tonnes of peas, contacted the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC) Corsen to evacuate of one of its crew members for medical reasons (patient n  1).
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Operators handling blisters which contained aluminium phosphide pills.
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Protective equipment must be worn in these cases (Figure 2).