Originally posted by jac I could arrange for a Canadian SAR team to check. The RCAF has a crack team of Sea King helicopters ready to go, 15 of them. (One service ready, 14 for spare parts.) And a squad of really mean beaver from Algonquin Park that fill-in when the operational 'copter is down. Provided they're not all too busy turning Norm and Tess' wilderness into swamp.
Ah, but then the Norwegian Sea King squad is waaaay more efficient. They have only 12 and still one operational (most of the time). The really great thing with flying 40+ year old 'copters is that the maintenance cost is huge, and getting spare parts is increasingly difficult.
We haven't come very far with the training of our beavers, though. It's hard to find good beavers these days.