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In Nov. 1942 a U.S. cargo plane crashed into the Greenland ice cap, the B-17 sent on the search-and-rescue mission got caught in a storm and also crashed, miraculously all nine men aboard survived. A second rescue operation was launched, but the plane, the Grumman Duck, flew into a storm and vanished. The survivors of the B-17 spent 148 days fighting to stay alive while waiting for rescue by famed explorer Bernt Balchen. Then in 2012 the U.S. Coast...
2) Rescue
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Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about rescue missions. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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These are the stories that defy conventional logic. The proverbial vanished without a trace incidences, which happen a lot more (and a lot closer to your backyard) than almost anyone thinks. These are the missing whose situations are the hardest on loved ones left behind. The cases that are an embarrassment for park superintendents, rangers and law enforcement charged with Search & Rescue. The ones that baffle the volunteers who comb the mountains,...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Watch the telling of dramatic real-life stories from across the globe, using footage captured by the rescuers themselves; this series puts viewers in the center of the action for every heart-stopping twist and turn as they witness life-saving feats in real time.
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Timeless Media Group, a division of Shout! Factory LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Operating from a top-secret island base in the year 2065, the team at International Rescue-intrepid Jeff Tracy and his valiant sons Scott, John, Virgil, Gordon, and Adam-engage in a never-ending humanitarian crusade to protect the innocent. Traveling via land, sea, air, and space in their fantastically advanced vehicles, the Tracy's take on the most impossible of missions with courage, honor ... and their greatest strength of all: the power of family....
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This series introduces children to the work of emergency services in different countries. Using action-packed examples from all over the world, each book looks at a different emergency service, covering the equipment, transportation, and skills used by each service. This book looks at different kinds of rescues made at sea, including the work of lifeguards on beaches, coast guards, and lifeboats. Read and Learn is an extensive collection of nonfiction...
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In an era of smart-phones and GPS, how could a 270-ton passenger jet vanish into thin air? NOVA tells the inside story of the search for Flight MH370 and meets the key players from all corners of the globe who have spent months searching for the lost plane. How easy is it to make a plane disappear? Or can new technology guarantee that in the future, nothing will ever be 'lost' again?
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Somewhere between hunting for gold in Latin America as a geologist and getting married to a new husband, thirty-three-year-old Susan Purvis loses her way.
Susan comes to believe that a puppy and working on ski patrol at the last great ski town in Colorado will improve her life. When she learns about avalanches that bury people without warning, she challenges herself: "What if I teach a dog to save lives?" This quest propels her to train the best possible...
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The elite Combat Rescue members of the U.S. Air Force, Pararescuemen, or PJs, have one mission: rescue American or Allied forces in extreme danger. Whether their targets are shot down or isolated behind enemy lines, engaged, wounded, or captured by the enemy, PJs will do whatever necessary to bring those in peril home. For the first time ever, camera crews go on a deployment to Afghanistan with this team, as they fly day and night, in any weather,...
12) The abyss
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20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
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A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer...
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The Search and Rescue mystery series returns readers to Timber Creek, where the hot, dry Santa Ana winds are blowing. But more than just the threat of wildfire endangers the tiny mountain community... Gracie and her Search and Rescue teammates are searching along the highway in the middle of the blisteringly hot Mojave Desert when they make a grisly discovery--a trash bag containing human body parts. Not long after, Gracie's growing friendship with...
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In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped and sheltered for months by villagers behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of Operation Halyard, a story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery, is now being told for the first time.--From publisher description.
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Soon after 2:00 A.M. on Easter morning, March 23, 2008, the fishing trawler Alaska Ranger began taking on water in the frigid Bering Sea. While the first mate broadcast Mayday calls to a Coast Guard station more than 800 miles away, the men scrambled to inflate life rafts. By 4:30, the wheelhouse was just barely visible, and most of the 47 crew were in the water, wearing the red survival suits--many torn or inadequately sized--that were supposed to...
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"Now in her mid-thirties, Loewen has become a wife, a mother, and a leader of Seattle Mountain Rescue (SMR), a volunteer-based search-and-rescue operation. She no longer struggles with the respect of co-workers--she has it in spades--nor crippling self-doubt--overcome after hundreds of rescues. But she does still ponder the question of why she continues to head into the backcountry, confronting danger, risk, and, often, death. SMR is involved in everything...
20) Beyond a doubt
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Rock Harbor series volume 2
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English
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Nothing seems beyond a doubt when Bree opens a cold-case file ... with clues too close for comfort. Arson. Theft. Murder. When Bree Nichols discovers a corpse in her own basement, a whirlwind investigation usher an unbidden danger to all she holds dear. Wihout safe haven in her lighthouse home-or in the arms of her new love-the young widow struggles to free her family from the tentacles of an age-old crime that strikes at the heart of Rock Harbor....
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