Never saw a yellow cab all the time we were there (2 days) slept on the floor in Cork hangar protected by 3 SB officers who were armed because we were under threat from the local IRA contingent who had informed the authorities they were looking for a target of opportunity.
Flew 6 hrs 1st day and 9 hrs second day. By day 2 all the bodies had sunk. Interestingly in those days our winch men were also divers and were allowed to disconnect from their winches and swim around. We could see sharks circling and would spend a lot of our time watching for them getting close to the diver! He spent a lot of his time swimming for his life to re-connect and winch up
Our job was one of salvaging any body parts and personal belongings to identify the victims. Some horrific injuries.
The memories of those images stick with me to this day.
[Obviously the timings - don't!].
Everyone knows Fastnet was a Navy experience Albert
