BK
10-14-2002, 08:42 PM
If any of you have attended any St Louis F1 boat races during the last several years, you'll recognize the name Peter Lindenberg --- He's a South African F1 pilot who came to St Louis, typically leasing one of the Bud Light boats.
Peter was involved in a horrific wreck 2 weeks ago, where he was underwater for a great amount of time, as well as suffering major injuries to his vital organs. His prognosis of surviving was less than 50%. It looked really bad. :(
From http://www.powerboat.co.za
“Peter was racing on the limit, chasing Mark Shepherd the winner of the first two races, in the final 15-lap race in quite choppy conditions. The course was tight and Peter – who loves to win - just could not overtake Mark,” said the Formula 1 series promoter Jan Johnson. Cameras caught Lindenberg hit the wake of Shepherd’s boat, and in conjunction with a gust of wind got airborne, he had a vicious nose-dive at 220 k/ph.
“I arrived on the scene and started counting the number of National Ports Authority boats and realised that Peter’s boat was still under water,” said Shepherd. “The rescue tried to roll the boat, and I realised that Peter was still underwater strapped in his cockpit. Peter’s team-mate Ian Mather dived into the water to assist the rescue 911 team to remove the steering wheel, because the control cables had wrapped around the wheel, preventing its release. He must have been underwater the best part of 2 and a half minutes, and when I saw him he was blue and foaming. It did not look good,” he explained.
Ralf Schana, the events manager of Netcare 911 said that their biggest problem was that the safety cell Peter was in had started to sink as it had no flotation – the flotation was in the hull, which was broken in pieces. “We nearly had the cockpit sink with Peter in it at one stage. It was touch and go,” he said.
A brain scan in Vredenberg revealed swelling but fortunately no damage despite the fact that his helmet had broken in half and had caused damaged to the side of his safety cell.
29 September 2002
“We can be very grateful”, said pulmonary specialist Dr. Peter Chapman at the Vincent Pallotti Hospital at 9am on Sunday 29 September. This was in stark contrast to the less than 50% chance of survival given by the trauma specialist Dr. Ryk Lochner at 8pm Saturday night about the legendary powerboat champion Peter Lindenberg who had a horrific barrel-roll at the second round of the national championship series in the Port of Saldanha Bay at 4:30pm on Saturday 28 September.
http://www.powerboat.co.za
2 October 2002
Powerboat Legend continues with his miraculous recovery from a horrific Formula 1 accident on Saturday at the National Ports Authority Saldanha Port Festival. The fact that he is alive is a huge tribute to the Rescue 911 team who rescued him from the water and Dr. Karen Schwabe who together with Rolf Schana resuscitated him, to Dr Lochner, a trauma specialist who stabilised him and staved off a near cardiac arrest, and pulmonary specialist Dr. Peter Chapman who is still attending to him in intensive care at the Vincent Pallotti hospital in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Lindenberg, who regained consciousness and was taken off the respirator yesterday morning, said that he was feeling much better today and was ready to meet the minister of sport who will visit him today.
One of his first conversations was to his team-mate Ian Mather, who assisted to get the trapped Lindenberg from his boat in the icy Atlantic waters, when he instructed him to prepare his boat for the next round of the championships taking place at the Morula Sun north of Pretoria on 24 November. :eek:
Lindenberg is looking forward to returning to work as soon as possible to Gosforth Park where he is constructing a multi-faceted motorsport complex, which will be ready in June 2003.
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This is GREAT NEWS!
THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to have you back, Peter!
:eek: :)
Peter was involved in a horrific wreck 2 weeks ago, where he was underwater for a great amount of time, as well as suffering major injuries to his vital organs. His prognosis of surviving was less than 50%. It looked really bad. :(
From http://www.powerboat.co.za
“Peter was racing on the limit, chasing Mark Shepherd the winner of the first two races, in the final 15-lap race in quite choppy conditions. The course was tight and Peter – who loves to win - just could not overtake Mark,” said the Formula 1 series promoter Jan Johnson. Cameras caught Lindenberg hit the wake of Shepherd’s boat, and in conjunction with a gust of wind got airborne, he had a vicious nose-dive at 220 k/ph.
“I arrived on the scene and started counting the number of National Ports Authority boats and realised that Peter’s boat was still under water,” said Shepherd. “The rescue tried to roll the boat, and I realised that Peter was still underwater strapped in his cockpit. Peter’s team-mate Ian Mather dived into the water to assist the rescue 911 team to remove the steering wheel, because the control cables had wrapped around the wheel, preventing its release. He must have been underwater the best part of 2 and a half minutes, and when I saw him he was blue and foaming. It did not look good,” he explained.
Ralf Schana, the events manager of Netcare 911 said that their biggest problem was that the safety cell Peter was in had started to sink as it had no flotation – the flotation was in the hull, which was broken in pieces. “We nearly had the cockpit sink with Peter in it at one stage. It was touch and go,” he said.
A brain scan in Vredenberg revealed swelling but fortunately no damage despite the fact that his helmet had broken in half and had caused damaged to the side of his safety cell.
29 September 2002
“We can be very grateful”, said pulmonary specialist Dr. Peter Chapman at the Vincent Pallotti Hospital at 9am on Sunday 29 September. This was in stark contrast to the less than 50% chance of survival given by the trauma specialist Dr. Ryk Lochner at 8pm Saturday night about the legendary powerboat champion Peter Lindenberg who had a horrific barrel-roll at the second round of the national championship series in the Port of Saldanha Bay at 4:30pm on Saturday 28 September.
http://www.powerboat.co.za
2 October 2002
Powerboat Legend continues with his miraculous recovery from a horrific Formula 1 accident on Saturday at the National Ports Authority Saldanha Port Festival. The fact that he is alive is a huge tribute to the Rescue 911 team who rescued him from the water and Dr. Karen Schwabe who together with Rolf Schana resuscitated him, to Dr Lochner, a trauma specialist who stabilised him and staved off a near cardiac arrest, and pulmonary specialist Dr. Peter Chapman who is still attending to him in intensive care at the Vincent Pallotti hospital in Pinelands, Cape Town.
Lindenberg, who regained consciousness and was taken off the respirator yesterday morning, said that he was feeling much better today and was ready to meet the minister of sport who will visit him today.
One of his first conversations was to his team-mate Ian Mather, who assisted to get the trapped Lindenberg from his boat in the icy Atlantic waters, when he instructed him to prepare his boat for the next round of the championships taking place at the Morula Sun north of Pretoria on 24 November. :eek:
Lindenberg is looking forward to returning to work as soon as possible to Gosforth Park where he is constructing a multi-faceted motorsport complex, which will be ready in June 2003.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This is GREAT NEWS!
THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Glad to have you back, Peter!
:eek: :)