‘Full meal deal’: B.C. search-and-rescue training flight saves hypothermic men, dog
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The rescue happened around 3 p.m., after an 87-year-old man and his son found themselves in frigid waters when their boat capsized around Quarry Bay near Texada Island.
A military search-and-rescue trainee found himself getting the “full meal deal” when his helicopter was tasked to rescue two men and a dog from B.C.’s South Coast on Thursday.
The rescue happened around 3 p.m., after an 87-year-old man and his son found themselves in frigid waters when their boat capsized around Quarry Bay near Texada Island.
The pair were able to phone for help and the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre tasked a CH-149 Cormorant helicopter from 19 Wing Comox to respond.
As it turns out another Cormorant was already in the air, but it was a “school” chopper on a training flight, and wasn’t crewed up with search-and-rescue technicians.
It was, however, much closer to the men in distress, explained to Lt. Col. Jean Leroux, commanding officer of 442 Transport and Rescue Squadron.
“They looked, they saw we had another helicopter, Cormorant, close by to the scene, so they redirected this school helicopter to locate and to assist as required, because they were I think about five minutes flying from where they were.”
When the Cormorant arrived at the scene, the crew found the two men and the dog had managed to scramble onto a steep rocky shore.
The men had been in the water for about 45 minutes before letting go of the boat from exhaustion, and were showing dangerous signs of exposure, Leroux said.
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