Why leave the technician in the water and delay the survivors return to medical care? Did the winch fail?
Sox6, between 1034 hrs and 1106 hrs the rescue of Robert Decker was performed, the exact sequence of events not released.
I don't know, I'm only a PAX, but Allison Maher was most likely still in the water and the rescue technician may have been hoping she was in cold water shock but still alive and decided to stay with her for rapid location/secondary extraction in order to allow Robert to be expedited back to onshore medical resources. I would assume that it is protocol not to leave a SAR swimmer in the water without air cover.
Perhaps one of the SAR PPRuNers could provide more insight on the hypothetical sequence of events, but for me I'm sure they did all they could as quickly as practically possible.
Safe flying
Max