A REALLY search and rescue. The helicopter didn’t fall out of the sky luckily but the expensive bait hopper came off the hook and fell into the sea. We were having lunch when we were scrambled to the boats. Tommy, Alastair and I jumped into a jet boat along with Kieron the government officer and we took off to where the helicopter was hovering over the hopper.

The hopper on the ground in the hanger not in the sea where it is now!
By the time the helicopter moved away so I could go to the location it sunk 30 seconds before we arrived. We didn’t see it actually sink but fortunately pictures were taken by Pat from his kitchen so from that picture we were able to get a transit and therefore a possible location.

We put together a dive team of Kieron, Martin (the head of South Georgia government), Katie and myself and headed out on a RIB.

The film crew jumped on Wanderer and started filming the whole operation. With 1m visibility we were not able to find in on a tank of air so we returned to base to leave off the dive team. We then headed to the Greene to pick up Andy and Sally who had been camping there for the night to watch what effect if any the helicopter baiting had on the wildlife and also to collect more rats from the traps. By the time we were back it was 6:30pm.