Mayday to the Rescue
Author: Christine Tagg
Publisher:
Published: 2003-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781571459145
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Mayday to the Rescue
Author: Christine Tagg
Publisher:
Published: 2003-06-29
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781740410403
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Author: Chris L. Demarest
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780689851612
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thirty-foot yacht, adrift well out to sea, sends, "MAYDAY! MAYDAY! Please respond to our plea!" Hearing this call for help, the United States Coast Guard leaps into action. A team of four highly trained rescue specialists head out in an H-60 Jayhawk helicopter. Battling fierce conditions, the Coast Guard team finally locates the disabled boat, rescues the crew, treats injured passengers, and carries them back to safety. Complemented by dramatic, striking illustrations, Chris L. Demarest's text brings into vivid focus one of the many important jobs performed by the U.S. Coast Guard. A detailed author's note provides additional information about the search-and-rescue process, making this a terrific book for any school or home library.
Mayday! Mayday!
Author: Chris L. Demarest
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780328157075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rhyming text and illustrations show how the United States Coast Guard uses aircraft and a rescue swimmer to respond to a call for help.
Mayday! Mayday!
Author: Samuel Agnew Schreiner
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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True Stories of Rescue and Survival
Author: Carolyn Matthews
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2008-12-01
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1770703594
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A crab boat off Newfoundland catches fire, and a rescue is undertaken by helicopter. A child goes missing in a New Brunswick forest, and a desperate hunt is mounted. A climber falls on a British Columbia mountain, and a helicopter rescue is attempted. A civilian chopper crashes in Nunavut, and a search-and-rescue team braves a savage snowstorm to find survivors. True Stories of Rescue and Survival features the above true stories and many more from across the country, past and present. Its heroes are to be found in the RCMP, city police forces, the Canadian military, and among all the rescue workers and specialists of the Canadian Coast Guard. Volunteers, too, risk injury and even death to help others. Sidebars spotlight the equipment search-and-rescue teams use, how search dogs are trained, how long-line rescues work, how navy divers are making a difference in the deserts of Afghanistan, and much more.
Mayday! Mayday!
Author: Jeff Wadley
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781572331549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →About 50 aircraft have crashed in the Great Smoky Mountains. This book details all known incidents and rescue efforts from 1920 to 2000, including those that occurred within the area before the establishment of the park in 1934. Stories are based on official documents, newspaper archives, and interviews with survivors, family members, and eyewitnesses. B & w photos are included. Wadley is a lieutenant colonel in the Tennessee Civil Air Patrol who serves as a mission coordinator and trainer in the Smoky Mountains. McCarter served as a backcountry ranger in Great Smoky National Park for 20 years. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.
Mayday--
Author: Joyce Millard
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780952733508
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mayday! Mayday!: The History of Sea Rescue Around Britain’s Coastal Waters
Author: Karen Farrington
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Published: 2011-11-24
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0007443390
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Into the Blizzard
Author: Michael J. Tougias
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1627792848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A riveting true account of a rescue at sea from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours. 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 steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard. Perfect for fans of the I Survived series ready for a longer form account, this middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book chronicles the harrowing journey between Captain Quirk and the Coast Guard as they struggled in the holds of a radical storm. It's an epic tale of heroism and bravery at sea. Christy Ottaviano Books New York Times bestselling author Michael J. Tougias adapts his histories of real life stories for young readers in his True Rescue Series, capturing the heroism and humanity of people on life-saving missions during maritime disasters. Illustrated Chapter Books for ages 6-9: True Rescue: The Finest Hours True Rescue: A Storm Too Soon Young Readers Adaptations, for ages 9-14 The Finest Hours (Young Readers Edition) A Storm Too Soon (Young Readers Edition) Into the Blizzard (Young Readers Edition) Attacked at Sea (Young Readers Edition)
