Last evening, while carrying out interfield transfers, before taking home some Shell Gas platform workers after they had completed their shift, an S76 helicopter operated by Bristows Helicopters crashed into the sea 25 miles from Great Yarmouth on the UK coast, there were no survivors and there was, it seems no chance that anybody would have survived long enough to be rescued.

The 11 dead include a colleague of mine who has left behind a family and many friends, so I would appreciate it if you could direct your thoughts to those left behind and maybe raise a song in the memory of these and others like them who pay too high a price for our lifestyle today.

Sledge