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Caracal carries out first maritime rescue mission

2nd June 2009 - 13:36 GMT | by Tony Osborne in London

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A French Air Force EC725 Caracal carried out its first maritime rescue mission on May 29.

The aircraft was called out to the 77 metre-long Mario M cargo ship carrying cement after it requested assistance 90 km west of Brest reportedly taking on water.

The Caracal was ordered to collect an engineering team equipped with a pump.

The team were then flown out to the ship to begin pumping out water from a flooded compartment.

The team was reinforced with another team, equipped with extra pumps shipped out onboard a salvage tug.

According to reports the pumping was successful, and

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Tony was deputy editor of Defence Helicopter and Rotorhub magazines before joining Aviation Week in …

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