Irish coast guard rescue

DC403l

I was browsing reddit and just so happened to stumble upon this video. Major props to the irish coast guard! Do you guys not think that it's a bit extreme sending out a helicopter at this distance from the shore?

BonkeyDonker

DC403l wrote: »

Do you guys not think that it's a bit extreme sending out a helicopter at this distance from the shore?

The coast guard helicopter may have already been out and about - it has a minimum number of flying hours in it - and if it helped save a life then it was worth every penny.

Klunk001

DC403l wrote: »

I was browsing reddit and just so happened to stumble upon this video. Major props to the irish coast guard! Do you guys not think that it's a bit extreme sending out a helicopter at this distance from the shore?

Looks like R-116 might have been in the general area when tasked. No other Rescue services visible in the area. I recollect a rescue been done in the same area a few years back. R-116 was in the right place at the right time then, made the difference between the casualty being alive or dead.

Dun Laoghaire Coast Guard at the time were on a task at Dalkey, crews were split and one went to sandymount after a person got stuck on a sandbar after the tide came in. Before the DLCG team arrived R116 had arrived and plucked the person and transferred them to Tallaght hospital.

The rescue heli will lift you off a beach if required. It operates from inland to far offshore and anywhere in between if required to.

DC403l

Yeah, suppose your right, you can't really take chances when there is a human life in the mix

Razor44

Klunk001 wrote: »

Looks like R-116 might have been in the general area when tasked. No other Rescue services visible in the area. I recollect a rescue been done in the same area a few years back. R-116 was in the right place at the right time then, made the difference between the casualty being alive or dead.

Afaik from listening to the eidw feed at the time they were doing a practice ILS approach to rwy 16 and got tasked as they were touching down....they went straight across 10/28 and out to the scene, they must have been there only 2mins after tasking, top job by the R116 guys

V_Moth

Razor44 wrote: »

Afaik from listening to the eidw feed at the time they were doing a practice ILS approach to rwy 16 and got tasked as they were touching down....they went straight across 10/28 and out to the scene, they must have been there only 2mins after tasking, top job by the R116 guys

Rescue 116 arrived around 19:12 and departed 19:24-19:25 looking at the timings on my pics. The area where the person was picked up from looks quite close to land, but it is a lot further once you are out there and there are a number of deep channels between the various sandbanks. I did notice a RIB arriving from the Dun Laoghaire direction, but it stopped some distance out from the stranded person and eventually turned back.

A couple of pics - Rescue 116 hovering over Sandymount:



One of the crew dropped to stranded person:



Winched to Rescue 116: