Dalkey / Killiney rescue photos

pedroeibar1

My first post over here so Mods move if you want.

I caught the tail end of a rescue in Dalkey/Killiney yesterday – accident on Whiterock beach, could not get closer due to traffic and had to contend also with trees but got a few shots – seems injured individual was on the Killiney end of the beach which is a long way from any access – chopper went in, nice bit of flying, very near DART and its HT cables.:eek: Inshore and offshore RNLI on standby, Coast Guard, ambulances, fire engines, the lot. Chopper flew circuits for a while, so I was able to get it lined up over the LB.



RNLI by Pedro Eibar, on Flickr



Ch & RNLI by Pedro Eibar, on Flickr



chopper 2 by Pedro Eibar, on Flickr



chopper 1 by Pedro Eibar, on Flickr

lighterman

nice photos.Any idea what happened

Shield

Apparently they do a lot of training for various scenarios every day. Would this not end up being very expensive on fuel for the helicopter?

pedroeibar1 wrote: »

My first post over here so Mods move if you want.

I caught the tail end of a rescue in Dalkey/Killiney yesterday – accident on Whiterock beach, could not get closer due to traffic and had to contend also with trees but got a few shots – seems injured individual was on the Killiney end of the beach which is a long way from any access – chopper went in, nice bit of flying, very near DART and its HT cables.:eek: Inshore and offshore RNLI on standby, Coast Guard, ambulances, fire engines, the lot. Chopper flew circuits for a while, so I was able to get it lined up over the LB.

Esel

Shield wrote: »

Apparently they do a lot of training for various scenarios every day. Would this not end up being very expensive on fuel for the helicopter?

I would have thought that fuel would be the least expensive factor.

Shield

Esel wrote: »

I would have thought that fuel would be the least expensive factor.

From my very limited knowledge of the service, they operate on a shoestring budget and every Euro counts. From what I can remember, it takes hundreds of litres per day.. and like you said, that's just on a shoestring funding so someone there is working the 'loaves and fish' miracle with the resources they DO have!

Torpedo

Fuel doesn't cost a penny more if they go out all day long or don't go out. Heli contract is outsourced to a private company for a flat fee on behalf of the Coast Guard.

Bang Bang

Shield wrote: »

Apparently they do a lot of training for various scenarios every day. Would this not end up being very expensive on fuel for the helicopter?

The last time I took part in a training exercise with the Coast Guard I flew with the helicopter crew. They told me that they must perform certain skills at least once a month to keep up to scratch. If they get to perform those skills on a mission then they tick the box, if they don't then they must carry out an exercise in order to tick the box for that skill.

I don't know if we have any helicopter crew members on the forum who could let us know if this is still the case, or indeed if I picked up the information correctly, but that was my understanding of it.

I have worked alongside the crews on a number of occasions and to see some of the terrain they fly into and even land at times is amazing.

pedroeibar1

This was for real; I've learned that there was an individual with a broken leg on the beach, a slip/fall. The location is very difficult, it is about a vertical 200 feet from road to beach, actual distance much longer, including crossing a railway footbridge, so it would have been an agonizing distance for the carriers and carried. The inshore lifeboat could have brought the person off and met with an ambulance, the chopper was an alternative. There was serious manpower and vehicles involved but I know the RNLI are volunteers, the fire-engine guys are on duty anyway, not sure about the others. I have no issues with the cost of a rescue following an accident, what P###s me off are the idiots who do not bother to learn, those set out in small boats against Met warnings or those who swim far out to sea instead of parrallel to the coast.

I've no agenda on this, I just happened to be nearby with a camera and guessed that some of those involved would be on this BB and might like the photos.

Torpedo

RNLI and Coast Guard personnel on the ground would all be volunteers. DFB, HSE and CG heli are fixed cost so no big extra costs for the incident but it does tie up resources if needed elsewhere. While you prefer them not to happen these incidents are always good learning and training if the same thing happens again, perhaps at night and in more extreme weather conditions. Hopefully speedy recovery.

Klunk001

Bang Bang wrote: »

I don't know if we have any helicopter crew members on the forum who could let us know if this is still the case, or indeed if I picked up the information correctly, but that was my understanding of it.

First off, great photos p1. BB, bang on....excuse the pun. All the SAR flight disciplines for crews are what are classed as "perishable disciplines". In other words if you don't practice it, you loose it. To that end the crews are required as a minimum to achieve most of the disciplines once in a three month period. Realistically they are achieved once to twice a month, both training and as in this case an actual operation. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect.:D

arctan

class pictures, must have just missed it, was actually working round there on the day