Splendid news that all safe and well. Great effort by the infield choppers and the boys from Lossie.In case some of you are puzzled to read on the news websites that "offshore choppers are fitted with lifejackets"!! Just for the record all pax and crew are wearing survival suits and lifejackets. The pax are also wearing a rebreather self rescue set (a mini aqualung) which enables them to swim and breath underwater if this is necessary to escape from an upturned hull. The users of this kit are tested before flying offshore and re-tested every four years thereafter. There also are two life rafts and a number of beacons/flares. No pass offshore survival course---no fly.
All worked well tonight.