Coming back alive

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.

First sentence: As he steered his speeding twenty-six-foot gillnet boat Marlene out across the Copper River Delta in Alaska's Prince William Sound on a gray, windblown afternoon in 1981, Skip Holden could not have known that within hours he would be engaged in a hellish struggle just to survive, nor could he have imagined how many lives would be so profoundly affected by the outcome.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Editions

3

Pages

288

ISBN

9780312302566

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