Bigtop - you beat me to it!
Tourist, I wasn't actually advocating any specific award, just that I felt it would be appropriate for the Service to acknowledge the achievement of the crew of Rescue 193, which has quite rightly been recognised by GAPAN. Whilst I understand your comment that they, as a SAR crew, were only doing their jobs, I would suggest that this particular rescue was at the extreme end of the spectrum. As such, I agree with GAPAN that it deserves special recognition over and above the normal courage and dedication demonstrated by our SAR crews (of whatever uniform/Service or employer) around the country every day.
If pressed, I reckon a Green endorsement for the whole crew to start with, followed by a smattering of QCBAs at least. The RN are traditionally appalling at proposing people for gongs, but I think that a case could quite easily be made for QGMs or even higher for the two aircrewmen and Claire as the aircraft captain. Unfortunately, I'm not going to hold my breath!