Video: Helicopter crew brave dizzying heights to rescue trapped seagull The seagull had been trapped for over twenty-four hours on Virginia Beach in the US, when a helicopter rescue crew was called in to help. Local energy company Dominion came to the rescue, using one of its helicopter platform crews to help the bird. The video footage shows a crew member untangling the bird from the cable, hundreds of feet in the air. The creature has since been handed over to a local animal welfare centre who say the bird is "very injured, dehydrated and in shock but it is in the experienced hands of our staff."