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00:00 About 9 o'clock this morning Newcastle Police received some calls from numerous members

00:05 of the public in relation to a bulk carrier that was in distress off the coast and we're

00:11 going to deploy two rescue helicopters in tandem to rescue two at a time from the vessel.

00:18 Coming up we'll just go over, we'll just taxi over to the ship.

00:23 Yes sir I'm back.

00:25 I'll just hold here.

00:27 You think the middle? With the windshield?

00:30 That's fine by me, it's not moving any more than the front anyway.

00:33 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

00:37 And you can come down to 15 if you like.

00:40 We can probably land on this.

00:42 Yeah I would not be surprised but there's a lot of rush.

00:45 That comes over, we'll go this far.

00:47 8 o'clock probably.

00:50 Clear to hoist.

00:55 Traffic.

00:57 This is good, hi, this is perfect.

00:59 Just top right please.

01:01 Right one.

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01:51 How was the crew?

01:53 Oh it was probably, obviously, well without a shadow of a doubt it was the worst conditions

01:57 we've had to hoist in.

01:59 22 people, you can hardly see the ship now so it was very difficult.

02:05 The wind was gusting up to 60, 80 knots at some times and a lot of sea spray and the

02:12 ship itself had stopped moving around but it was just horrendous.

02:18 It was very hard for the pilot to hold the hover and when we were, the cable was streaming

02:23 back behind the aircraft with the wind gusts up to 30 to 40, 50 feet sometimes.

02:27 And plus we were getting a lot of static electricity from the discharge from the hoist cable.

02:32 So all in all it was probably out of 10, it was a 10 for difficulty I'd say.

02:38 It was very difficult but the result was achieved.

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