There was just a case a few weeks ago where USCG rescued 3 people from a sailboat 200 miles south of Galveston. After the rescue they were too low on fuel to return to base so they refueled on an offshore oil platform. Even if they have a theoretical mission radius of 200 miles they can burn a lot of fuel hovering at the rescue site.
=================== On 1/16/08, Ron Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 200 miles is well-within the combat radius of all the relevant helicopters > that I am aware of to include commercial oil rig shuttle helicopters. > > Ron Rogers > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
