Mike Corey

Yeah.

And the flight was supposed to take about an hour.

But how long did it actually take to get there?

And when you got there, did you find the fishermen right away?

Well, I think that that lends credence to how terrible the storm was, because you said there was 80 knot tailwinds.

That's like 92 miles per hour winds blowing you.

So I imagine it's not too difficult to get thrown a few miles off course when the storm is this bad.

And before you, you could attack this thing by lowering the rescue basket.

You dropped flares in order to do something that's called station keeping.

Can you explain that a bit to us today?

Can we clarify a few things?

So you were saying that you and Captain Lefevre were flying the helicopter in a sort of unusual way where you both had hands on the controls and you were helping each other.

You mentioned something called the collective.

Can you just elaborate on what that is?

That's incredible to even picture.

It's just the cinema of this...

chaotic scene chopper rattling away with the blades flares in this milky ocean with the snow and the rain just rising above and then you guys having to work together and trust each other 100 on both sets of controls to be able to get this basket to the right point but also not be engulfed by the waves that you can see with these smoky flares rising above the cockpit window that is an incredible visual

That's incredible to think about.

Wow.

Okay, so the flares were in the water, and now was the time to start dropping the basket.