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Deadliest Sea: The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Deadliest Sea The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Author: Kalee Thompson
Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the middle of the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a remote Coast Guard station more than eight hundred miles away, the men on the ship's icy deck scrambled to inflate life rafts and activ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061766299
ISBN-10: 0061766291
Publication Date: 6/1/2010
Pages: 320
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Publisher: William Morrow
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Chronicle of a sea rescue of 47 fishermen after their vessel sank. Great tale and aftermath (government inquiry). Makes you realize it's a hazardous occupation if the company does not train employees in what to do in case of emergency and does not maintain the boats properly. Corporate neglect is at the bottom of this and 3 men died.


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