Just because you haven't seen it...
[QUOTE]The abrupt change to the planned sortie was due to the fact that a couple of strands had parted (for no apparent reason) and so the crewman aborted the winch and elected to sling me to the beach.
On return to base advice from engineering as to why the wire had failed was a blank; it was within tolerance and all documents were in order?
Have you given any thought to the fact that some Clown may well have shock loaded that cable prior to your sortie and failed to report (Cables do not just separate for no apparent reason) 
BZ to the crewman who spotted it