SASless brings up a good point with SAR coverage, in the copy of the Q&A's between the rig workers, Cougar and Transport Canada I saw, the rig workers said they were not happy with the SAR time of the rescue S-92 , most people i've talked to thought it was pretty quick and Cougar should be congratulated to launch a helo so quick...... at least they had a rescue helo on standby, the UK sector of the north sea has RAF and RN Seakings and Coastguard S-92's and the Norwegian sector RNoAF Seakings and Canada has the EH-101's and backup 92's, in Australia there is practically nothing most bases do there own SAR (pretty hard with only one a/c at the base) and when you get bases hundreds of Kilometres apart help is a long way away (Karratha to Broome 650km, Broome to Truscott 615 km, Truscott to Darwin 510 km), years ago oil companies payed for SAR backup, a 214ST or S.Puma offshore machine with a 212 or 412 as SAR backup but not anymore .....cost cutting , bases may have multiple machines as tech backup or medivac backup but no hoist equiped helos for hundreds of km's, would these same Canadian oil workers who said it took to long to have a rescue helo overhead put up with the situation in Australia?