Mid-last week we were called about the possibility of transporting a patient to the nearby coastal town of Banjarmasin, about 40 minutes away. Banjar is much larger than PalangkaRaya and supposedly the medical care is better.
This poor guy was already in the hospital in PalangkaRaya and then took a nasty fall, causing all kinds of new problems. He was too unstable to be taken overland, so air transport was really his only option.
Forty minutes after taking off we landed on one of the large rivers near Banjarmasin. On final approach you can see the Ocean and the river is big enough at that point that I can probably land and take off width-wise. But, despite the river's huge size, it throws at us a lot of challenges like tidal currents, river currents, strong wind, and a tough dock.
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