U.S. Coast Guard pilot on helicopter rescue of fishermen from doomed vessel off Nova Scotia
U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Craig Campbell was piloting an MH-60T Jayhawk on his first major rescue mission March 2 when the Canadian Coast Guard called for help saving, in the dead of night and foul weather, 31 fishermen from a disabled fishing vessel 130 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He told "Rotor Radio" what it was like hovering at 90 feet while hoisting survivors from a bucking ship, without power or headway, taking 30-foot seas beam-on.
An infrared image shows a U.S. Coast Guard MH-60T Jayhawk hovering over the sinking fishing vessel Atlantic Destiny about 130 miles south of Halifax Nova Scotia. Screenshot from Coast Guard Video