London - creates the true heroes fate! An unusual encounter on the high seas has a few friends while rowing brought a record, but rescued a downed pilot's life.
The rowers were with their British Orchid "in the process of establishing a new record for the circumnavigation of the British Isles, as they watched the crash of a Kleinflugzeugesnahe the port town of Rosslare on the Irish east coast. The pilot of the single-engine plane was on its way from England, Ireland.
"We radioed Mayday Mayday, but said the Coast Guard that they were about 20 minutes," said rower Oliver Dudley. "We could see the plane wreckage and the pilot, as he stood on the wings of the machine and waved his arms. So we paddled like a bat out of hell on him."
The rowers were not close enough to the plane, because the accident site was in a dangerous waters section. The rowers dropped the pilot, then to a rope. A few minutes later a rescue helicopter.
Blessing in disguise: The pilot escaped with shock and hypothermia. He was lucky because the lake at the time was not very rough, a spokesman for the Coast Guard said, according to media reports.
