Helicopter Rescue off Dover
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tom_sail
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Everything looks like its working perfectly from the video? Looks like the lifeboat could of just escorted them in to me.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Beat ya
The steering seems to be working on the vid
Ha! Your first link wasnt working!
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Beat ya
The steering seems to be working on the vid
I dont think there is anything wrong with the boat... Crew Failure.....
Someone has had the foresail off... he was running under number 3.... and the main appears to be bagged but the bag is damaged...
Maybe they got knocked down?
snooks
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Blueboatman
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Where's the storm jib n trysail that the skip was so excited about on Twit?
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I know vid is always deceptive, but with the exception of the view over the LBs bow early on, those conditions really look like wind over tide in the Solent.
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I know vid is always deceptive, but with the exception of the view over the LBs bow early on, those conditions really look like wind over tide in the Solent.
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Slight thread drift here. This is fascinating stuff, the speed of information being displayed on this thread: The AIS route, Twitter, RNLI video. Its true, "You can run, but you can hide!"
prv
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Can that happen? I'd assume it's an electromagnetic thing that would automatically release if it lost power, but I've never really investigated. Anyone know?
(I realise this was just an example of a possibility, not what happened in this case)
Pete
tom_sail
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BBC news has just said a sailor has died after a wave hit his vessel in the English channel! Is this the same incident?
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
The crewman who died was one of three injured men who were rescued by Falmouth coastguards from the Annie PG in the Channel. The other two men were taken to the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro.
BBC... different incident.
Juan Twothree
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The lifeboat in the video is the Dover Lifeboat, which launched at around 8am to assist the Dungeness Lifeboat (which had launched at 0530, and is the boat visible in the background).
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A1Sailor
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I've been thinking that as well! Who knows?
Maybe - the Skipper was taking the crew on Adventure Training!
Maybe - he'll get proven innocent in court?
Maybe - pigs can fly upwind into a F8!!!!
I wonder if he donates to the RNLI...
Twister_Ken
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He does now.
ksutton
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Just been on local news, reported by RNLI crew who attended that helmsman of Vortex was thrown against wheel, which either broke or badly bent it!
Sandyman
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Bit more than that but point taken. Must have been a very weak crew if they couldn't handle such conditions.
Twister_Ken
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That's maybe a little uncharitable - they'd been running/reaching in big seas for many hours. The movement will have been pretty violent. Not sure how my stomach would have reacted.
PhillM
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Point is this is not a crew ... they are paying guests on a book-a-berth trip.
Taken from the HL website "Our mile builder cruises prove very popular with novice and experienced sailors alike"
So there is every chance that the crew had little or no experence and had no idea what they were getting into, let alone have the strentgh and experence to cope with it.
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
Worst point of sail for rolly polly sick inducing...
Twister_Ken
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ooh - just noticed the thread title. What helicopter?
photodog
Lord High Commander of Upper Broughton and Gunthor
They airlifted 4 of the crew off prior to this video... landed the skipper and two others with the yacht..