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Yes. This week's record replaces the previous record for over water rescue in a single. I would expect that in the future such rescues will be done by the Air Force in their shiny new NH90s.
Man recovers after chopper rescue from the sub-Antarctic | NATIONAL
Here is some vid taken from the B3.
They're now saying in this news story that the hand injury was potentially life threatening. But without a little more information it is a touch hard to imagine how.
A little more digging and it has been suggested to me that the Director of NZ CAA was motivated into acting by complaints about use of the Wellington Hospital pad outside of the regs and that maybe the hospital's insurers are getting a little twitchy. That is but a suggestion though.
TK