Coast Guard HH 60 crew rescuing the survivors of the "HMS Bounty" during Hurricane Sandy recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlc1slA8PA

These folks earn their keep.......if you're ever having a REALLY bad day, these are the folks you really want to see on the other end of that winch cable.

MTV

mtv wrote:Coast Guard HH 60 crew rescuing the survivors of the "HMS Bounty" during Hurricane Sandy recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDlc1slA8PA

These folks earn their keep.......if you're ever having a REALLY bad day, these are the folks you really want to see on the other end of that winch cable.

MTV

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When a couple buddies took a trip off a cliff on snowmachines in a white out a couple years ago, the life flight, the airforce and the trooper heli declined to come get them due to weather.. the coasties flew out of Kodiak into the mountains around Seward to get them out. No way in hell would I have thought about flying in the mountians in that blizzard. It dumped 4' of snow in 8 hrs yet they came in and got them. They have my uttmost respect for what they do!!!

great save on the CG's part.. Glad they didn't lose any rescue personal or aircraft.... The bigger question is why in the hell did those guys/ gals set sail directly into a know hurricane where all the computer models agreed on the storms course.

go to the supercub site and read what i posted there. it is too cumbersome for me to move it over here. the captain of the ship had hundreds of thousands of seamiles and he died with his ship.

Yea they are awesome, to find those guys after 6 hours adrift in the lifeboats and then manage to rescue all from the life boats and then manage to find one of the people in the water and bring her body home in that weather amazing.


Now for whoever thought that movie prop ship was ready to transition through that storm, they made some crazy decisions. They sailed past lots of good hurricane holes were they should have tried to ride it out. The forcast was going crazy about the pressure gradient and size of the wind field for at least 5 days.

A real sad deal for that ex USC cheerleader who died.

messenger wrote:go to the supercub site and read what i posted there. it is too cumbersome for me to move it over here. the captain of the ship had hundreds of thousands of seamiles and he died with his ship.

It's pretty easy, actually. Google "how to copy and paste text"

I saw this the other day. I grew up in St. Petersburg, FL and the Bounty was a landmark downtown. My brother went to their ticket booth to call an ambulance when he rode his bicycle into a stop sign in 79 or 80. The pier just won't look right without the Bounty there.

I'm also very impressed with the performance of Coast Guard crews. it's amazing that their they accept the risk of the weather they fly in while keeping accident rates low. My hats off. I also admire that they are standardized across the force. Must be nice not having to learn a new SOP at every unit.

Brett

When it comes to earned respect, my hats off to them. I have to wonder, do they have to have the weather suits custom made to fit there balls?

Awesome video, those guys make a difficult rescue look easy, lots of training to pull it off that smoothly. We saw the Bounty in 2010 at the Duluth Tall Ships event, It was an impressive replica.

The swinging load on the winch cable......and the way the pilot minimized it, was very reminiscent of crane work. Except for the high winds and the big waves! What great teamwork between the crew, and how about the swimmer who willingly jumps in that wet hellhole?

The USCG did a great job, as usual. However, as a tugboat captain with 20+ years of experience and having seen quite a bit of bad weather myself, I am very critical of the captain's decision to not remain in port during what was known to be an approaching super-storm. No matter how much credit the survivors give to their deceased captain, two lost lives were an unacceptable consequence of his unwise, reckless and otherwise extremely poor decision.