Winchman

For 22 years, Chris Murray was a winchman on search and rescue helicopters, and was involved in the rescue of many people from the seas and mountains around the north of Scotland and further afield. Here, he details his exploits from his early days as a Royal Navy diver in the elite Faslane diving team, his subsequent spell as a civilian diver working offshore for various companies, and finally his career spent hanging from a wire in stormy seas and snowstorms, risking his life to aid fishing vessels in distress.