HMS Bounty, Coast Guard

A friend sent me this link to Coast guard video footage of the rescue of the HMS Bounty crew. Those Coast Guard rescue swimmers are the definition of heroism in my book. > http://www.dvidshub.net/video/159583/coast-guard-rescues-14-searches-2-hms-bounty The video was pretty slow on my grumpy old computer but it's worth watching. I hope I'll never have to meet the CG guys in a rescue situation, but it's reassuring to know that they are there, trained and ready to go. Chris Campbell

Great video, thanks for sharing. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:13 AM, Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> wrote: > ** > > > A friend sent me this link to Coast guard video footage of the rescue of > the HMS Bounty crew. Those Coast Guard rescue swimmers are the > definition of heroism in my book. > > > > http://www.dvidshub.net/video/159583/coast-guard-rescues-14-searches-2-hms-bounty > > The video was pretty slow on my grumpy old computer but it's worth > watching. > > I hope I'll never have to meet the CG guys in a rescue situation, but > it's reassuring to know that they are there, trained and ready to go. > > Chris Campbell > > >

On 10/30/2012 10:49 AM, Allen Edwards wrote: > > > Great video, thanks for sharing. Here's a CG photo of the vessel after foundering. They lost one crew member. Sad event. Bounty herself was a bit shabby the last time I saw her at a tall ships gathering. In bad conditions, I think I'd rather be in a modern vessel. > http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1592231 Chris Campbell

Heros? Chris, you don't think it's possible that they're just adrenaline junkies? Last week our fleet went out into the darkness, 17 to 20 knots of wind and ferociously steep chop and flying spray to look for buoy H, somewhere 3/4 of a mile off the center of our detached breakwater. When we left the docks to start the racing going out the main channel it hadn't been blowing 'that' hard. Don't you think that's nuts too? The three Solings in the race were swamped but continued racing. Most of us were soaked with spray, even the crew on the Cal 34 that was rail down in the race. I had a shit eating grin on my face cause I had left Sea Dame, our Cal 25, in my distant wake. (Yahoooo!)Then she goes and beats me coming back as we got disoriented in the dark and my G-d Dame 8 channel Garmin wouldn't find itself. And then a 'no sail' buoy pops up on the wrong side of me bow and I had to circle around. Shheeesh! Jerry PS: When I was in the Navy, one of my classmates and I went out body surfing in the sea the day before, and the day after the worst Hurricane in history hit, Cecil, with, according to the front page of Pop. Sci., 212 mph winds (it wiped Biloxi off the face of the earth and uprooted concrete highway bridges...I saw the damage 3 months later). No matter how far out we swam we couldn't get to where the breakers started. We quit after getting our heads bounced into the sand a few times. I had been out riding my motorcycle in the storm...I wanted to see a Hurricane, which fortunately swept past 50 miles off shore. I tried to make it to the beach but the bridge had been closed. I went over another one across the bay, and as I drove straight ahead, but with my bike at a 45 degree angle to windward, the wind tore my wind breaker zipper apart. The next day I learned a tornado had ripped the roof off one of the pool buildings. The story went that rescuers who had made it to the barrier islands nearby Biloxi afterwards found the bodies of people that had tried to escape the flooding seas tied up in trees the next few days. Yikes. From: Chris Campbell <cc… [at] lsnm.org> To: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:13 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] HMS Bounty, Coast Guard A friend sent me this link to Coast guard video footage of the rescue of the HMS Bounty crew. Those Coast Guard rescue swimmers are the definition of heroism in my book. > http://www.dvidshub.net/video/159583/coast-guard-rescues-14-searches-2-hms-bounty The video was pretty slow on my grumpy old computer but it's worth watching. I hope I'll never have to meet the CG guys in a rescue situation, but it's reassuring to know that they are there, trained and ready to go. Chris Campbell

On 10/30/2012 1:27 PM, Gerald Sobel wrote: > > > Heros? > Chris, you don't think it's possible that they're just adrenaline junkies? > Last week our fleet went out into the darkness, 17 to 20 knots of wind > and ferociously steep chop and flying spray to look for buoy H, > somewhere 3/4 of a mile off the center of our detached breakwater. > When we left the docks to start the racing going out the main channel > it hadn't been blowing 'that' hard. Don't you think that's nuts too? There is a big difference between stupidity and heroism. I have done many stupid things in my life but so far as I can count, nothing heroic. When those CG guys jump out of their nice, safe, dry, warm helicopter into a cold, wet, storm-tossed sea to save somebody else's butt, that's heroic. It's only good luck that has prevented stupid Chris from being rescued by the heroic CG guys. It's important to maintain an awareness of the distinction. Chris Campbell