If everyone survives perfectly well without Nimrod, will you all promise to stop going on about the critical role of Nimrod in SAR?
Today 10:12
Tourist - HMG may breath a sigh of relief if they get away with this one. The fact we have had to rely on the French again within a week to cover a task that was bread and butter for the MR2 and would have been for the MRA4. This incident is at the extreme limit of the Sea King (if not beyond), and the Athena is extremely fortunate that another vessel was within one hours sailing to come to their aid. Why was the standby Herc not launched? Probably because everybody knows it is not equiped or trained for the task.