Being a SAR captain means you have to make decisions to balance risk against reward and every SAR pilot I know would accept extra risk if the casualty will die otherwise - it's not nice (hence the winchies concerns in the voice over) but it is a fact of life with SAR.
In a previous job, I did find it rather annoying to scramble then fly 100 nms offshore in the dark only find the supposedly "seriously ill" casualty was as stiff as a board and obviously was so at the time the distress call was received. But at least the fishermen could carry on as soon as their inconveniently deceased colleague was removed from the ship......saved them having to return to port....
