pain on a ship 100 miles off Bermuda yesterday.

The 37-year-old Sri Lankan was flown to Police Field in Prospect, before being whisked to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

The man was on board Appleby , a coal-laden motor vessel en route from Norfolk, Virginia, to Port Talbot in Britain.

Harbour Radio was first alerted at about 7.45 p.m. on Saturday, when the boat was 400 miles north northwest of Bermuda. The man was airlifted yesterday at 1.45 p.m. He was in stable condition last night.