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050 00 G530.A193|bT466 2010 
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100 1  Thompson, Kalee. 
245 10 Deadliest sea :|bthe untold story behind the greatest 
       rescue in Coast Guard history /|cKalee Thompson. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bWilliam Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers,
       |c[2010] 
264  4 |c©2010 
300    309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :|billustrations,
       map ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-305). 
505 0  The Alaska Ranger -- "Go to the suits!" -- Always ready --
       Best speed -- "Abandon ship!" -- The observers -- Alone in
       the waves -- Swimmer in the water -- Sick at sea -- Man 
       down -- Out of the cold -- Death at the extremes -- The 
       final search -- The investigation. 
520    Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, 
       the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in
       the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast 
       Mayday calls to a Coast Guard station more than 800 miles 
       away, the men scrambled to inflate life rafts. By 4:30, 
       the wheelhouse was just barely visible, and most of the 47
       crew were in the water, wearing the red survival suits--
       many torn or inadequately sized--that were supposed to 
       keep them from freezing to death. Two Coast Guard 
       helicopter rescue teams battled snow squalls, enormous 
       swells, and gale-force winds. Before dawn, the Coast Guard
       had lifted more than twenty men from the freezing waves--
       more than any other cold-water Coast Guard rescue in 
       history. This book recounts the harrowing stories of both 
       the rescuers and the rescued, and investigates the 
       negligence that leads to the sinking of dozens of ships 
       each year.--From publisher description. 
610 10 United States.|bCoast Guard|xSearch and rescue operations
       |zBering Sea. 
610 20 Alaska Ranger (Trawler) 
650  0 Shipwrecks|zBering Sea. 
650  0 Search and rescue operations|zBering Sea. 
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