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Category: Helicopters in action |
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Car in Flood (no audio)
Rescue from car caught in floods in Dorset. FLIR winch footage from helicopter. Footage of rescue from additional camera. Daylight shots of area - Copyright Meridian |
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Crane at Southampton Docks (no audio) 13 July 2009 (selected sections from footage)
The crane, a twin boom rig with the cab suspended on rails failed at both uprights and collapsed onto various containers below. Whilst the Fire and Rescue Service extricated the man and placed him on a spinal board discussions continued as to the best place to remove the injured man by winch. The helicopter then lifted him from the area within the crash site to the dockside where an ambulance took him to hospital by road. Press release |
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Diver & Heart Attack Rescue |
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Kodima - Wave over Helicopter
Kodima aground at Whitsand Bay, Cornwall. Thousands of tons of the pine planking from its holds were washed ashore. Salvage workers were winched to safety from the deck after winds of force six and seven blew up during a refloating attempt. Footage shows huge wave over helicopter and person on winch. |
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Mud Rescue (Package and rushes - Meridian Soton and Coastguard - Bouldnor Cliff, IOW)
Thursday 27 February 2003 15.36. Lee on Solent Coastguard helicopter 'India Juliet', the Coastguard Rescue Team and the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service responded to a 999 call from a young lady out walking dogs with her friends on the beach near Bouldnor Cliff on the Isle of Wight. Two children in the group had got into difficulty in the mud as the tide came up. They were located quickly by the helicopter and were successfully rescued. One of the children had been waist deep in mud and was airlifted to St Mary's Hospital as a precaution due to the effects of the cold. The other was evacuated by stretcher by the Coastguard Rescue Team to a waiting ambulance. The team praised the girl's action in calling 999 and remaining calm and coherent when giving details. |
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Sikorsky S-92 on Shetland Islands July 2009
Recent footage of the Sikorsky S-92 helicopter on the Shetland Islands. |
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Sonia 1
Thursday 1 September 1999 16.15. Solent Coastguard was alerted by the 'Sonia', a 4,650 tonne, 120 metre vessel, registered in St Vincent and Grenadine, on its way from Southampton to Greece with a cargo of grain. It was taking water just under two miles south east of Culver cliffs on the Isle of Wight. Two tugs stood by her overnight pumping water from her flooded engine room. A hole in an engine room sea water pipe close to the sea valve below the water line had caused the leak. A salvage control unit was set up at Solent Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre. An MCA Surveyor was landed by Coastguard helicopter on board the vessel during the night to monitor the condition of the vessel, and four divers were taken on board to assess the damage below the water line. An independent salvage advisor to the MCA was also placed on board to review the situation. The 15 crew on board were in no immediate danger. Bembridge Lifeboat remained on scene and monitored the half a mile surface exclusion zone placed around the vessel. She was eventually towed into Southampton for repairs. |
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Sonia 2
Thursday 1 September 1999 16.15. Solent Coastguard was alerted by the 'Sonia', a 4,650 tonne, 120 metre vessel, registered in St Vincent and Grenadine, on its way from Southampton to Greece with a cargo of grain. It was taking water just under two miles south east of Culver cliffs on the Isle of Wight. Two tugs stood by her overnight pumping water from her flooded engine room. A hole in an engine room sea water pipe close to the sea valve below the water line had caused the leak. A salvage control unit was set up at Solent Coastguard Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre. An MCA Surveyor was landed by Coastguard helicopter on board the vessel during the night to monitor the condition of the vessel, and four divers were taken on board to assess the damage below the water line. An independent salvage advisor to the MCA was also placed on board to review the situation. The 15 crew on board were in no immediate danger. Bembridge Lifeboat remained on scene and monitored the half a mile surface exclusion zone placed around the vessel. She was eventually towed into Southampton for repairs. |
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Yacht sinking in Lyme Bay 12 June 2009 (selected sections from footage)
Aerial view of man rescued as his yacht broke up on rocks in Lyme Bay. The skipper, a 62 year old male from Norwich, was taken off the yacht by crewmen from the Inshore Lifeboat and then safely winched to the waiting helicopter, airlifted to the Helicopter base at Portland and met by Portland Bill Coastguards and South Western Ambulance. Apart from being cold and shaken he was found to be well. Press release |
