Steve Torpey

It's coming from behind the helicopter.

It's like 45 degrees being blown behind us.

So it's coming up at a very awkward angle.

So as it comes up, I could just hear the confusion in Fred's voice about what's happening.

And then Mike Fish, our rescue swimmer, poked his head out the door and could see that there was someone in the basket, but there was also someone hanging on the outside of the basket.

There were two people coming up.

And it wasn't long after that that, sorry, I can't get through this point without

Remembering how I felt.

Yeah, I imagine it was very difficult.

The basket was close to the aircraft.

And like I said, the person on the outside of the basket just fell.

And I instantly looked at my radar altimeter and it said 103 feet.

And I knew you can't survive that fall.

Not in that ocean.

And we continued with the recovery, got the person in the basket in the aircraft.

And I backed up and I could see the person had fallen in the water.

I could see him.

And he was in front of me and he was floating flat and he wasn't moving.

Oh, it's agony.

I have never felt so deflated and so, like, just, I didn't know how to recover from it.