Offshore Wind Farm Helicopter Search and Rescue Trials 10 Training of lifeboat crews ( See section 10 ) Fig 15 : Rhyl lifeboat Lill Cunningham”
Fig 16 : Training of Rhyl Lifeboat crew by Npower personnel ( Photos courtesy of Paul Frost, 2nd Mechanic, Rhyl lifeboat) 11 Thermal imaging within the wind farm The images indicate that thermal imaging at night would be capable of identifying turbines, vessels and persons within the wind farm, providing that the atmosphere was dry. Its use would, however, be very limited in mist, fog, or precipitation of any kind. Fig 17 : Thermal image of wind farm with Celtic Wind” near turbines ( Courtesy of C Flight) Fig 18 : Thermal images of Celtic Wind” and Lady Gwen ll” ( Courtesy of C Flight) Fig 19 : Thermal image of Lady Gwen lll”, of similar size to a Mersey Class RNLI lifeboat ( Courtesy of C Flight) |
