Rescue
In winter, the hazard of the cold is added to the danger of the waves. "Rescue" graphically illustrates how deadly the coldest waters can be. Off the inhospitable Alaskan coast, crab fishermen suffer from the highest fatality rate of any profession in the U.S. Dramatic footage of a helicopter rescue on the Bering Sea captures the scene as ice pack traps and slowly crushes a fishing vessel as huge rollers heave over the ship's deck. A wave sweeps two men overboard into a frozen slurry of ice and salt water – both are rescued just before freezing to death. Passengers from the Estonia ferry that foundered in the Baltic in 1991 recall huddling in a life raft as fellow passengers became disoriented, began hallucinating and succumbed to hypothermia. The tragic story of the loss of a Penlee lifeboat off the coastline of the British Isles – and the deaths of those aboard the ship that the lifeboat men had gone to rescue – illustrates just how merciless the wintry seas can be.
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