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 : Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 904
EAN: 9780312302566
ISBN: 0312302568
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 11, 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin

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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 America's most remote Coast Guard base in the hopes of tracking down an anonymous Mayday signal. A fisherman's worst nightmare has become a Coast Guard crew's 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 Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Edge, was hailed by James A. Michner as "masterful . . . will become the definitive account of this perilous trade, an addition to the literature of the sea." In Coming Back Alive, Walker has crafted his most devastating book to date. Meticulously researched through hundreds of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true account of the La Conte's final voyage and the relationship between Alaskan fishermen and the search and rescue crews who risk their lives to save them.




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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Awesome!!
The events of this book are painstakingly created from interviews with the people that lived through horrific events. Spike Walker once again has created a book I couldn't put down. It is very well researched and full of details that are mind boggling.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great book for the whole family
I really enjoyed this book and I'm passing it on to my son. My thanks to the author for writing an exciting book without filling the pages with foul language. My esteem for the men and women of the US Coast Guard skyrocketed after reading this book.



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Coming Back Alive
An excellent read for any offshore fisherman anywhere- recreational or commercial. Author also blends beautiful descriptions of Alaska along with the suspense of the rescues. A great testimonial to the hard work and sacrifices made by our USCG.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Walker - the fisherman
I have read some reviews that have been placed on this book and I understand where everyone is coming from. Spike may seem to throw a lot of words in there to describe something and the writing might not be absoluately fluid and pleasing. BUT...Spike Walker is a fisherman first, a book writer second. I saw him on Deadliest Catch where he sat with all the crab boat captains in Dutch Harbor. He writes about this stuff because he lived that life. He might not be able to write a book like The Perfect ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Couldn't put it down!
I know Spike and this is the first book of his I have read. I started reading this at night on my graveyard shift job and couldn't put it down. I spent the winter of 1979-80 in Unalaska working as an engineer at Pan-Alaska Seafood's crab plant and know what Alaska weather is like. I've seen king crab boats with 3" of ice on a 3/4" cable, and the rigging and railings full of ice. I'm from Astoria, Oregon and know lots of fishermen who fish Alaska. I can't imagine anyone having a hard time believing ... Read More




 

 

 

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