SRHU in the USA: Monday

Our Sea Rescue Helicopter Unit (SRHU) is on a visit to the US Air Force – Rob Fine reports:On Monday, the crew were split up into two teams. Two of the crew assisted Jules Roy (the Zodiac Boat race organizer) with final preparations for the zodiac race scheduled for Tuesday.The other 5 were tasked with assisting the PJ's with water rescue and recovering the teams that had parachuted out of a C-130 and landed in the water. 6 Groups of PJ's had to test their precision jumping skills by trying to land inside a 24 man life raft. The team who had all 3 members inside the life raft in the quickest time won the days event. NSRI's job was to assist with recovering the Pararescue jumpers and return them safely to shore.We were provided with 2 inflatable boats and 2 jet-skis. The jet ski's were tasked to keep the drop-zone area safe and warn other vessels to keep a safe distance from the area we were working in. NSRI crew on their standby rescue boats assisting USAF recovering Pararescue Jumpers. USAF Pararescue Jumper – exiting a C-130 Aiming for the life raft... Landing in the water.
Here they ditched their parachutes and had to swim as fast as possible to reach the raft and climb on. Only once all team members were onboard did the 'Stopwatch' stop timing. This picture was taken inside the USCG base. Kevin and Brad on the PJ jet skis.