[Paddlewise] Review: Coming Back Alive

Dave Kruger said:
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Coming Back Alive mainly focuses on the harrowing helicopter rescue in
January 1999 of three commercial fishers from 70-foot seas on the
Fairweather Ground (Gulf of Alaska).  Two others from the same vessel
were lost.  This is a good
tale for folks interested in how high-seas helicopter rescues work
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Dave,
If this is the same incident that ran in Reader's Digest a couple of
years back, it was a harrowing happening. I assume this is the one with
the dilapidated ship maybe, or was it they didn't have life rafts...I
can't remember. Anyway, if it was the same incident, I read an excellent
article about the helicopter rescue work -- from the pilots perspective.
The reason the last pilot was finally able to pull off the rescue
was...you guessed it...multiple backups. Excessive fares, etc, were
taken at the last moment, and much thinking outside the box was
required. It was a more exciting story than even the Perfect Storm (from
the aircraft perspective).

BTW, went to see "Black Hawk Down" at the theater. Very good movie.
Lovely shots of the ocean and beaches below the fighting, helicopters
getting shot up, and massacre of Somalians and US Ranger troops. Dang,
what a perverse world we live in -- such beauty, such tragedy. When is
it all going to change?

Doug

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