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Longest ever rescue mission, I don,t think so
Surely Pete Rosie,s well documented SAR job to Ascension Island in the late 80,s must rate as the longest ever from ISK
Can,t remember the exact date but he definately spent at least a week (flying every day) looking for a lost delivery pilot, and eventually found him ( albeit sadly, not alive)
Memories appear to getting even shorter, to keep the journo,s happy these days.
Good effort by all at ISK though
BT
Surely Pete Rosie,s well documented SAR job to Ascension Island in the late 80,s must rate as the longest ever from ISK
Can,t remember the exact date but he definately spent at least a week (flying every day) looking for a lost delivery pilot, and eventually found him ( albeit sadly, not alive)
Memories appear to getting even shorter, to keep the journo,s happy these days.
Good effort by all at ISK though
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42 Sqn had a long range SAR epic which never realy hit the head lines in 78 in the vicinity of Lajes. Like Pete Rosie's crew they flew every day for many days with, unfortunately, no result. Below is a a short piece about the event.
These are not tsunamis or tidal waves, but huge breaking walls of water that come out of the blue. Suspicions these were fact not fiction were roused in 1978, by the cargo ship München. She was a state-of-the-art cargo ship. The December storms predicted when she set out to cross the Atlantic did not concern her German crew. The voyage was perfectly routine until at 3am on 12 December she sent out a garbled mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. Rescue attempts began immediately with over a hundred ships combing the ocean. "We hoped to find at least a life-raft with people. We never found a living soul" says Captain Pieter de Nijs, München search coordinator.
The ship was never found. She went down with all 27 hands. An exhaustive search found just a few bits of wreckage, including an unlaunched lifeboat that bore a vital clue. It had been stowed 20m above the water line yet one of its attachment pins had twisted as though hit by an extreme force. The Maritime Court concluded that bad weather had caused an unusual event. Other seafarers could not help but consider the possibility of a mythical freak wave.
These are not tsunamis or tidal waves, but huge breaking walls of water that come out of the blue. Suspicions these were fact not fiction were roused in 1978, by the cargo ship München. She was a state-of-the-art cargo ship. The December storms predicted when she set out to cross the Atlantic did not concern her German crew. The voyage was perfectly routine until at 3am on 12 December she sent out a garbled mayday message from the mid-Atlantic. Rescue attempts began immediately with over a hundred ships combing the ocean. "We hoped to find at least a life-raft with people. We never found a living soul" says Captain Pieter de Nijs, München search coordinator.
The ship was never found. She went down with all 27 hands. An exhaustive search found just a few bits of wreckage, including an unlaunched lifeboat that bore a vital clue. It had been stowed 20m above the water line yet one of its attachment pins had twisted as though hit by an extreme force. The Maritime Court concluded that bad weather had caused an unusual event. Other seafarers could not help but consider the possibility of a mythical freak wave.
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Also an excellent programme on British TV (sorry cannot remember channel but expect 4) about these waves. Statistically possible and reported by too many to be fiction. Bermen was very lucky as she ended up broadside to the waves without propulsion.
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It's a still from a vid, I think.
I did a bit of googling on the back of this and yep it's genuine. It blew all the bridge windows in and flooded it out.
I did a bit of googling on the back of this and yep it's genuine. It blew all the bridge windows in and flooded it out.
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Freak waves
Have sailed a lot around South Africa's coast, big and small.
http://www.dynagen.co.za/eugene/freaks.html
This is very real and can seriously spoil your weekend.
One would be very fortunate even to get off a mayday.
More like the one above here..http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/
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http://www.dynagen.co.za/eugene/freaks.html
This is very real and can seriously spoil your weekend.
One would be very fortunate even to get off a mayday.
More like the one above here..http://tv-antenna.com/heavy-seas/
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Janes IDR mag thingy has a interesting piece ref the number of frames needed to maintain current tasks and commitments, doesn't mention lack of bodies to man them of course
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I think I kacked my pants just looking at those photos.
That's why I stick with aeroplanes...even being in the infantry would be better than being in seas like that. I've seen film of North Atlantic convoys form World War Two and it just looked like a torpedo would be a welcome respite.
That's why I stick with aeroplanes...even being in the infantry would be better than being in seas like that. I've seen film of North Atlantic convoys form World War Two and it just looked like a torpedo would be a welcome respite.
