About this episode

The episode recounts the harrowing rescue of five fishermen stranded in a stormy sea by the Coast Guard.

Forced to abandon the La Conte, the five fishermen — Bob Doyle, Mark Morley, Mike DeCapua, Giggy Mork and David Hanlon — find themselves at the mercy of towering waves and galeforce winds as they float in the frigid sea. As they prayed for a swift rescue, the Coast Guard helicopter crew sent from Sitka soon discovered this wasn’t an ordinary, or predictable, storm.  For more on this story, we recommend: The Last Run by Todd Lewan Coming Back Alive by Spike Walker (also available as an audiobook on Audible) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Topics covered

• rescue
• fishing
• storm
• Coast Guard
• Alaska
• survival

Keywords

• Coast Guard
• rescue
• fishermen
• storm
• Alaska
• high seas
• survival
• La Conte

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Coast Guard

Books & works: The Last Run, Coming Back Alive

Places: Alaska, Sitka

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