Overkill??
Mama,
I would hazard a guess that most of the (thankfully few - at least at CNL & Shell) callouts of the Night Standby crews are for rather low level medical problems which occur due to the generally relatively low level of expertise of offshore medics (not being rude) who will initiate the callout because they are not trained or authorised to handle anything other than routine ailments.
I think dispatching an S92 to winch up a man with raised blood pressure or bleeding piles or loss of appetite may be construed as ambulance chasing on a grand scale! How many actual medevacs warrant a night HiLine transfer?
Even the callout resulting in the loss of BDZ was for a man with a couple of crushed fingers who would have (with 20/20 hindsight) been considerably more healthy today if he had taken a bunch of tylenol and waited till daybreak.
Do you really think existing Night Standby will disappear?
Trog