So Others May Live: Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers
Subtitle: Saving Lives, Defying Death
Contributors: Tom Ridge (Foreword)
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Published: June 1, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781592289318
Subjects: Sociology; Political Freedom & Security - Law Enforcement; Coast Guard; Medical; United States.; Search and rescue operations; Disasters & Disaster Relief; Sports & Recreation / General; Emergency Medicine; History
First sentence: THE CULMINATION OF TWO TRAGIC incidents in the early 1980s with significant loss of life focused congressional and public attention on the need for search and rescue capabilities to assist incapacitated people in cold water.