It's extremely high, extremely valuable. We work in the North Atlantic. We prosecute our livelihoods there. Most times if you go into that water, your life expectancy is measured in literally minutes.
In the case of my brother and those on the chopper, they may not have survived if they had got into the water. I do take some comfort from the fact that at least one severely injured individual did survive. I wonder, if they'd been quicker, then maybe.
It's absolutely critical to get a rapid response in the North Atlantic. Any time a fishing boat goes down, any time an oil rig has a problem, you don't have hours to wait; you have minutes. I don't care about the suits and all the protocols you put in place; that's what it comes down to--you have minutes.
It got better over the years. I remember in the early days, 30 years ago, when my brother was offshore working on the rigs. He often would say things like, “If we have to evacuate this thing in a storm, I might as well just stay on board and go down with it, because I'm just jumping into the water to die”. He felt a little better as time went on and things changed, but you're right, the time is absolutely critical.