Crowley County Combined Library

"Introduces nine sea emergency vehicles, such as lifeboats, jet skis, and Coast Guards. Explains and diagrams how each is equipped to rescue people in different situations at sea. Includes a reading quiz and web sites"--Provided by publisher.

Simple text and photographs present rescue boats, their parts, and how people use rescue boats.

"The Coast Guard must enter the dangerous exclusionary zone of Niagara Falls to rescue a family trapped on a disabled, drifting boat. It's up to Onyx to swim a tow line to the family."--P [4] of cover.

"In the tradition of the #1 New York Times bestseller (and Academy-Award nominated film) The Perfect Storm, and with a nod to Steven Gaines' dishy tell-all, Philistines at the Hedgerow, a riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island -- a "drinking town with a fishinging problem," as the locals have it -- and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families...

"In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker―both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot...

Documents the rescue efforts of pilot boat captain Frank Quirk and his four-man team, who, during the blizzard of 1978, endeavored to save the crew of a floundering tanker off the Massachusetts coast as well as a Coast Guard team that was endangered during a failed rescue attempt. In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls...