Nimrod Rescue
 

Good job well done here......


SAR

Good effort guys,

Not sure about the rescue part of the title though??



Standing by for incoming !!!

R1a

I think you'd be pretty pleased to see the mighty hunter come over the horizon if you were bobbing around in a little boat.

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

and now enjoying a few days off in iceland due to a massive hydraulic leak!! well earned rest i say!!!!

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.

On a tangent slightly, but wasn't there a antartic cruise hit by a monster wave and nearly sunk a few years ago?

MS Bremen:

http://www.naval.com/heavy-seas/3/burin.jpg

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.

Can anyone please tell me where to find a nice low level photo or image of an MR2 maybe dropping a SAR load please?

It is a favour for someone...............

cheers:O

Try:

http://www.kinloss-raf.co.uk//inflight.html

Science Doc

Are you sure that pic is genuine? If I saw a wave like that on the bridge of a boat I think the last thing I would do was get out my camera!!!

LJ:sad:

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.

Crikey, did it have a sound track to the vid like this...

"Sound for Brown Alert, Number 1". "Aye, aye, Captain..."

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/

Imagegear

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:8 .
Charlie sends

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.

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