Two Barks = A Little Lower, Please

Not to anthropomorphise the dog, but you have to wonder if there is any sense of trepidation running through his mind at that moment, a gnawing sense in the back of his head that perhaps this isn't such a great idea.  


Or maybe he realizes that the only thing more fantastic than getting to ride in a helicopter is to jump out of one.  


By inference the dog is Italian, and has been trained to retrieve persons in distress by offering them a buoy, raft, or handhold and then paddling them back to the shore (the full story is here.).