Florida : Countdown to the crossing -- Jean Pierre -- Riding the Gulf Stream -- Spirits are high -- The gathering storm -- Help is greatly needed -- Multiple maydays : The SAR Command Center -- The wave -- The life raft -- Desperation -- The cutter Tampa and the C-130 -- Tumbling in chaos -- Convulsions -- Need max gas -- Tether ourselves together -- "Mark, Mark, Mark!" -- Like a hockey puck on ice -- Deploying the swimmer -- "He needs to go first ..." -- As if shot from a cannon -- They're not coming for us -- He's going to drown -- Cherry Point Naval Hospital -- Heading home.
Summary:
When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a disastrous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive. This adaptation of an adult nonfiction book tells the story of the four intrepid Coast Guardsmen who braved this ruthless storm in the hopes of saving them.
Series:
The true rescue series ; 2 Tougias, Michael J., 1955- True rescue (Series) ; 2.
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