I have to agree with Tallsar and Crab about the question of needing proper SAR helos and fully qualified SAR crews. It is soooo easy for things to go badly wrong especially at night even when the crew know what they are doing! Anyone for the hi-roof version of the NH90? - It seems to be a possibility but have not heard much feedback from the Fins and Swedes who have taken delivery.
Its worth a thought that having dropped Lindholme gear from a fixed wing to a crew in the water a LONG way north, it still required a Danish Lynx to recover the survivors (those who had not succumbed to hypothermia). ...and why did we ever forget about flying boats after such a great history in the RAF of using these useful beasties. The Japanese haven't and are successfully flying the boats onto Sea 6/7.
Forbid it that the politicians should ever ask the professionals about their job! Such wild thinking...........
