Reading the English summary it's actually quite scary how a highly organized country like Holland can get SAR so horribly wrong. Sad.
Totally and utterly incompetent, you mean. These poor guys lay for almost 5 hours, whilst, it would appear, this lot, namely the Coastguard, sat around drinking coffee.
Astonishing. What gets me is the amount of public money, i.e. public taxes, that prop up outfits like this, and when push comes to shove, no real accountability. I assume the head of the NL coastguard is still in his well paid job?
I also like the attempt to soften the blow by stating the weather conditions were, very severe. Is that not what they are trained for? Do they not sit around all year, in between training, waiting for incidents such as these, then spring into action. Not this time it would appear......