Download Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas AudioBook Free
When the fishing vessel La Conte sinks all of the sudden during the night in 100-mile-per-hour winds and record 90-foot seas during a savage surprise in January 1998, her five crewmen are kept 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 Officer basic in the hopes of searching for an anonymous Mayday indication. A fisherman's worst nightmare has turned into a Coast Officer crew's desperate mission. As the staff of the La Conte begin to die one at a time, those sworn to view over them associated risk everything to accomplish the recovery of the century. Spike Walker's memoir of his years as a deckhand in Alaska, Working on the Border, was hailed by Adam A. Michner as "masterful...will become the definitive consideration of this perilous trade, an addition to the books of the sea." In Coming Back again Alive, Walker has constructed his most destructive book up to now. Meticulously investigated through thousands of hours of taped interviews with the survivors, this is the true consideration of the La Conte's last voyage and the partnership between Alaskan fishermen and the search and recovery crews who risked their lives to save lots of them.
