search and rescue operations

When his helicopter crashes in Kunar Province in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Jamal Jenkins is cut off from the forward base where the rest of his pararescue team is under fire--injured and captured by the Taliban Jenkins struggles to survive while the rest of his team sets out to find and rescue him.

Presents an adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the 2013 search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge.

Brett Archibald set off with friends on a dream surf charter trip off the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia in April 2013. In the middle of a storm, suffering from severe food poisoning, he leaned overboard---and blacked out. When he came to he was in a raging sea. No one had seen him fall, and no one heard his calls for help. He watched his boat sail away in despair. It would be eight hours before his friends realized he was missing. When the frantic search began, it seemed impossible that he would be found. As he battled jellyfish, sharks, and his own despair, Brett kept reminding himself not to give up.

The 1960's replica of the famous HMS Bounty, an eighteenth century tall sailing ship, sailed into Superstorm Sandy in 2012 and sank. For seventeen years Captain Robin Walbridge led the Bounty. Experienced and respected, he thought he could sail around the storm but his decision doomed the ship and the crew. The captain and one crew member, Claudine Christian, died. Claudine was a descendent of Fletcher Christian, who led the mutiny on the real ship, the British HMS Bounty. The rest of the crew was rescued from the sea in a dangerous mission by the Coast Guard in one-hundred-mile-per-hour winds.

Introduces readers to the skills, training, tools, and job of search-and-rescue teams that face harsh environments to help people in trouble.

"Explores the pararescue jumpers's history, key missions, role in the US military, major accomplishments, required training, weapons, gear, technology, and [more]."--Provided by publisher.

Tells the story of the sinking and rescue efforts surrounding the HMS Bounty, the actual replica used in the 1962 remake of the 1935 classic movie Mutiny on the Bounty, which sank during Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard. The tall ship was also used in two Pirates of the Caribbean movies.

Engaging images accompany information about search and rescue missions.

How do the emergency services in different countries of the world rescue people? How do they travel and what equipment do they use? This book looks at rescues made at sea around the world, including the work of lifeguards on beaches and military coast guards.

While training new members for the FIRESTORMERS the world s newest, most elite wildfire fighting crew a group of recruits goes missing inside a massive blaze. Their trainer, former special operations soldier Heath Rodgers, blames himself for their mistakes. If the new recruits are going to survive, Rodgers must lead the Firestormers into the flames before the past comes back to burn him.