David Mathre Photography

This Day of the Year

Twelve-Years Ago Today. Semester at Sea Spring 2013 Enrichment Voyage, North Sea.

HM Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter (Stac Pollaidh, G-BIMU) hovered near the MV Explorer as we traveled across the North Sea from Dover to Oslo. It may have been a training exercise as no one from the Enrichment Voyage needed to be transported for medical treatment. I am not sure where the helicopter was based, but the Stac Pollaidh name is a mountain in the northwest Scottish Highlands.

Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter (G-BIMU, Stac Pollaidh) Hovering Near the Semester at Sea M/V Explorer in the North Sea. Image taken with a Nikon D4 and 80-400 mm VRII lens
HM Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter (G-BIMU, Stac Pollaidh) Hovering Near the Semester at Sea M/V Explorer in the North Sea. Image taken with a Nikon D4 and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 800, 80 mm, f/14, 1/800 sec).
Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter (G-BIMU, Stac Pollaidh) Hovering Near the Semester at Sea M/V Explorer in the North Sea.
HM Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter (G-BIMU, Stac Pollaidh) Crew. Image taken with a Nikon D4 camera and 80-400 mm VRII lens (ISO 800, 400 mm, f/13, 1/640 sec).

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