Coming Back Alive
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (749 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312269714 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Coast Guard are some Brave dudes! holtySenior The book did a great job at describing how brave the people in the Coast Guard are especially in Alaska seas. They truly are hero's. However for my taste of reading a book, I didn't care for the authors writing. While he described the events well, he got too wordy for me, and also I didn't care for having half of the book in the begginning explaining each person in the book. If you are a max detail person like my wife, you will probably really like this book. Either way you will go away with a new respect for the job the Coast Guard does and their bravery in rescuing people.. "True Heroes" according to Anne Casey. How little we know about the heroism of our fellow citizens. These stories are so newsworthy. The expertise and incredible dedication by members of the Coast Guard should be celebrated on the front pages of our newspapers.. sandiibb said Renews faith in mankind!. A thrilling and informative book. I certainly hope that this brings the Coast Guard the respect that is due them. Thanks to all of those who brave the elements and danger to bring us their bounty of the sea!
But he manages only a pat resolution: "the relationship between fishermen and the sea, and the airborne alliance of those sworn to watch over them, continues today all across the vast ocean reaches and tidelands of Alaska." Map not seen by PW. The episode in which the crew is finally forced to abandon their vessel in 40-degree water, and to stay lashed together long enough for three Coast Guard teams to attempt wind-whipped rescues, is harrowing and suspenseful. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.. Walker (Nights of Ice) ably describes t
Michner as "masterful will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea." In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's desperate mission. When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter l