Bounty sinking and rescue.

For those who haven't seen it, here's an /Outside/ magazine article about the sinking of the /Bounty/ in Hurricane Sandy. Read the article first. Then watch the stunning Coast Guard video. The article contains this paragraph, which you should read before viewing the video: > More than an hour later, the first Jayhawk helicopter arrived. The > much watched Coast Guard video shows the heroic and methodical rescue: > the calm voice of co-pilot Jenny Fields as she counts wave intervals, > swimmer Dan Todd plunging over and over into the angry sea, rescuing > first Svendsen and then those in the first raft; flight mechanic Neil > Moulder manning the rescue basket and then announcing that he'd > dislocated his shoulder. What the video doesn't show is Moulder > slamming his shoulder against the chopper's open door, trying to get > it back in its socket. Nor does it reveal the full extent of this > initial recovery---four aircraft and 22 rescuers---and the massive > operation that followed. Before it was all over, the Coast Guard would > search the Atlantic for 90 hours, covering 12,000 overlapping square > nautical miles. You can hear Neil Moulder at about 7:00 say "I think I just threw my shoulder out" as though he were saying "I think I'm hungry." Rescues like this one are incredible feats of heroism, performed by public employees who are so highly skilled and competent that they make great danger seem like just another day's work. I'm humbled when I view this. The video is from above, so you don't really see the seas in all their massiveness. Remember when viewing the video that this is all going on in hurricane-force winds. Most of the article is about errors in judgment and things that went wrong. Then we see the Coast Guard at work in the video and we see judgment exercised calmly while under stress and we see things go right. Chris Campbell

Thanks for sharing that. Have been out of the loop a bit (not sure how I missed this except I don't watch TV or read the paper lately!) I actually toured that boat a few years back. So sad to read. Watched the rescue video and wow, amazing what those guys can do! --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Chris Campbell <ccampbell@...> wrote: > > For those who haven't seen it, here's an /Outside/ magazine article > about the sinking of the /Bounty/ in Hurricane Sandy. Read the article > first. Then watch the stunning Coast Guard video. > > The article contains this paragraph, which you should read before > viewing the video: > > More than an hour later, the first Jayhawk helicopter arrived. The > > much watched Coast Guard video shows the heroic and methodical rescue: > > the calm voice of co-pilot Jenny Fields as she counts wave intervals, > > swimmer Dan Todd plunging over and over into the angry sea, rescuing > > first Svendsen and then those in the first raft; flight mechanic Neil > > Moulder manning the rescue basket and then announcing that he'd > > dislocated his shoulder. What the video doesn't show is Moulder > > slamming his shoulder against the chopper's open door, trying to get > > it back in its socket. Nor does it reveal the full extent of this > > initial recovery---four aircraft and 22 rescuers---and the massive > > operation that followed. Before it was all over, the Coast Guard would > > search the Atlantic for 90 hours, covering 12,000 overlapping square > > nautical miles. > You can hear Neil Moulder at about 7:00 say "I think I just threw my > shoulder out" as though he were saying "I think I'm hungry." Rescues > like this one are incredible feats of heroism, performed by public > employees who are so highly skilled and competent that they make great > danger seem like just another day's work. I'm humbled when I view this. > > The video is from above, so you don't really see the seas in all their > massiveness. Remember when viewing the video that this is all going on > in hurricane-force winds. > > Most of the article is about errors in judgment and things that went > wrong. Then we see the Coast Guard at work in the video and we see > judgment exercised calmly while under stress and we see things go right. > > Chris Campbell >

On 2/15/2013 7:52 AM, duchess287 wrote: > > Thanks for sharing that. Have been out of the loop a bit (not sure how I missed this except I don't watch TV or read the paper lately!) > > I actually toured that boat a few years back. So sad to read. Watched the rescue video and wow, amazing what those guys can do! /Bounty/ was in the Great Lakes for the last Tall Ships tour and our schooner was berthed across the river in one port. She looked a bit shabby then, structurally. I don't have the link here at work but testimony in the Coast Guard inquiry said that at the last haul-out there were many rotten frames. Every account I've ever seen of Coast Guard rescue operations has left me feeling really humble in light of their courage and competence. They set a high standard. Chris Campbell > > > --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, Chris Campbell <ccampbell@...> wrote: >> For those who haven't seen it, here's an /Outside/ magazine article >> about the sinking of the /Bounty/ in Hurricane Sandy. Read the article >> first. Then watch the stunning Coast Guard video. >> >> The article contains this paragraph, which you should read before >> viewing the video: >>> More than an hour later, the first Jayhawk helicopter arrived. The >>> much watched Coast Guard video shows the heroic and methodical rescue: >>> the calm voice of co-pilot Jenny Fields as she counts wave intervals, >>> swimmer Dan Todd plunging over and over into the angry sea, rescuing >>> first Svendsen and then those in the first raft; flight mechanic Neil >>> Moulder manning the rescue basket and then announcing that he'd >>> dislocated his shoulder. What the video doesn't show is Moulder >>> slamming his shoulder against the chopper's open door, trying to get >>> it back in its socket. Nor does it reveal the full extent of this >>> initial recovery---four aircraft and 22 rescuers---and the massive >>> operation that followed. Before it was all over, the Coast Guard would >>> search the Atlantic for 90 hours, covering 12,000 overlapping square >>> nautical miles. >> You can hear Neil Moulder at about 7:00 say "I think I just threw my >> shoulder out" as though he were saying "I think I'm hungry." Rescues >> like this one are incredible feats of heroism, performed by public >> employees who are so highly skilled and competent that they make great >> danger seem like just another day's work. I'm humbled when I view this. >> >> The video is from above, so you don't really see the seas in all their >> massiveness. Remember when viewing the video that this is all going on >> in hurricane-force winds. >> >> Most of the article is about errors in judgment and things that went >> wrong. Then we see the Coast Guard at work in the video and we see >> judgment exercised calmly while under stress and we see things go right. >> >> Chris Campbell >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >