Vie - I echo that sentiment entirely!
AA - as ever you can't read what is actually on the page and react to something you see completely out of context. I didn't say all the people in the Gloucester floods were not 'life at risk', several were definitely saved from a watery grave (and not by me, just to be clear). As has been pointed out, and you would understand if you knew anything about SAR, you are tasked and you respond - making appropriate weather and captaincy decisions en route. Sitting in your warm crewroom saying 'we won't go, the weather looks a bit iffy' isn't an option when lives are at risk.
btw my peers are those who understand SAR and have done it rather than those who make ill-informed comments from the sidelines.