Rescue

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

How it feels

This documentary series follows an RAF search and rescue team based in Scotland from 1988 to 1989. It shows their responses to emergencies from hospital transfers to the Piper Alpha oil platform disaster.

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What happens

Rescue is a 13-part documentary series created, directed and filmed by Paul Berriff. It focused on the air-sea rescue work of "Rescue 137", a Sea King belonging to 202 Sqn, Royal Air Force Search and Rescue Force in and around their base at RAF Lossiemouth, Scotland and the North Sea over a period of a year between 1988 -1989. The series covered a multitude of incidents ranging from ferrying a sick child to hospital right up to the world's worst offshore disasters, the explosion and ensuing fire on the Piper Alpha oil platform. Theme and incidental music was by Robert Howes and Rod Argent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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