01445cam a2200277 4500 283097150 TxAuBib 20010929120000.0 010929s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001019678 9780312269715 $25.00 0312269714 $25.00 TxAuBib Walker, Spike. Coming Back Alive : The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas / Spike Walker. First Edition. New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2001. 267 p : ill., map; hardbound ; 25 cm. Flyboys and Fisherman -- Into the Storm. In Jan. 1998, the La Conte took on water and sank in the Fairweather fishing grounds off the coast of Sitka, Alaska, in what was to be the worst storm in that state's history. Abandoning ship, the five-man crew clung desperately to life in ferocious, 90-foot seas and freezing water. This is the story of the three rescue attempts of drowning fisherman made by the U.S. Coast Guard Search and Rescue chopper crews. 20010929. La Conte (Fishing vessel.) United States Coast Guard Search and rescue operations. Shipwrecks Alaska Alaska, Gulf of. Alaska Fishing Coast guard Sitka.