Originally Posted by
Older and Wiser
Norway
Sweden
Finland
USA
Canada
Chile
New Zealand
Iceland
Portugal
Germany
Italy
Spain
France
I am sure there are others.
A broad church. And yes there are others.
I had the good fortune to sit down and talk air rescue with aircrew and rescuers from 7 of those countries a few weeks ago. There are many comparisons one could draw with SAR across the world. However, this corner of the North Atlantic is a small and varied and meteorologically turbulent place where the Icelanders and Irish and British and Norwegians play with their clunky big helicopters in a particular way. They are very good. They do not have many accidents. So it will continue.