01912cam a2200265 4500 121326126 TxAuBib 20100803120000.0 100121s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2010001922 9780061766299 0061766291 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP BUR CBL VP@ ZPK TxAuBib Thompson, Kalee. Deadliest sea [HC] : the untold story behind the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history / Kalee Thompson. 1st ed. New York, NY : William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, 2010. 309 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm. 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. 20100803. Alaska Ranger (Trawler.) United States Coast Guard Search and rescue operations Bering Sea. Shipwrecks Bering Sea. Search and rescue operations Bering Sea.