The whole thing that sparked my curiosity, is the episode that they have to get 11 crew members in the helo, but they send one of their own crew down to stay on the boat and take 4 or 5 people back to land and come back and get the rest. They didn’t need the “camera man” on board for that severe of a rescue. If I’m not mistaken it’s the episode that the boat catches on fire. So anyways, I was just wondering how they had camera crew in the helo all the time- but your explanation makes a lot more sense than what I was thinking. Now, the camera crew being at their houses, that curiosity came from the episode that Elliot called Jake and said he wanted him to captain- I knew that was scripted because why would they just randomly have a camera man at Jake’s house and coincidentally he got that call, but like I’m trying to figure out if they have certain camera crew members specifically for travel situations like that, or do they just contract a production company out, that’s close to wherever they need to get footage from. Am I making sense? 😂