Rescue Demo & Station Open Day

Torpedo

This Sunday a Sea Rescue Demo and Coast Guard Station Open Day will take place in Howth, Co Dublin.

The demonstration will take place between the East Pier and Ireland’s Eye. It will consist of a number of scenarios including rescuing casualties from over turned boats in the water. A Coast Guard Helicopter Winch man will then descend to an R.N.L.I. All Weather lifeboat and winch some of the casualties aboard the helicopter.

More details on link below or facebook.

http://www.howthcoastguard.com/coast-guard-open-day-rescue-demo

tricky D

Cliff Hanger

This picture is NOT upside down! It's taken while the S-61 is in the process of doing a 'wing-over' right in front of the pier in Howth.

Credit: Carmel Guilfoyle

tricky D

Not-so-great video of same. Suffers from no sound, no horizon for reference and going out of shot while directly overhead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFMdJl7RLYM

Hooch

Cliff Hanger wrote: »

This picture is NOT upside down! It's taken while the S-61 is in the process of doing a 'wing-over' right in front of the pier in Howth.

Credit: Carmel Guilfoyle

Is that for real??

One of the lads at work sent me this today.....I didnt believe it to be honest!!!:D:D

Cliff Hanger

It's real alright!

The angle the picture was taken at makes it look a bit more dramatic than it is but here's the manoeuvre from a different angle so you can see. I think the other picture was taken around the same point in the manoeuvre as the third picture down in this sequence.

I was told it's called a "wing-over"

480905

Yep its real . Was there saw it myself. Savage piece of flying and a fantastic demo by all concerned . Great stuff.
Ive a video of the final "salute" by the services involved but I cant download it from the iphone.