Walker, Spike,

Coming back alive : the true story of the most harrowing search and rescue mission ever attempted on Alaska's high seas / Spike Walker. - xviii, 267 pages : map ; 24 cm.

Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Details the heroic rescue of the crew of the La Conte, who were forced to abandon ship during a brutal storm, by the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue teams who braved nature's anger to save the lives of these five men.

0312302568

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La Conte (Fishing vessel)
United States. Coast Guard --Search and rescue operations.


Shipwrecks--Alaska--Alaska, Gulf of.

G530.L3 / W36 2001

363.12/30978 363.12