Coming Back Alive

Livro estado de novo – 320 pages – When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks suddenly at night in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds and record ninety-foot seas during a savage storm in January 1998, her five crewmen are left to drift without a life raft in the freezing Alaskan waters and survive as best they can.One hundred fifty miles away, in Sitka, Alaska, an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter lifts off from Americas most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fishermans worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crews desperate mission. As the crew of the La Conte begin to die one by one, those sworn to watch over them risk everything to pull off the rescue of the century.Spike Walkers memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge,