Originally Posted by
Max Contingency
The Maritime Incident Response Groups have, to date, made one operational deployment. This was on 6 May to the MV Calypso (engine room fire).
The AB139 would have taken 2 lifts to achieve this task.
The S61 that actually flew them took (you guessed it) 2 lifts to achieve the task (performance limitations).
Not quite correct, I suggest you look at the numbers actually carried. Max Con, I wonder if you enlighten us on the radius of action with the firemen on board, assuming they actually fit in?
Crab is right, Chivenor, Wattisham and Culdrose are in for a lot more action post July 07 if a ship catches fire offshore. Perhaps this is why SAR-H chose the AW 139
