Coming Back Alive
Subtitle: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780312302566
Subjects: Emergency services; True stories of endurance & survival; Nature; History - U.S; History: American; Alaska; American; Ships & Shipbuilding - Shipwrecks; United States - 20th Century (1945 to 2000); Nature / Natural Disasters; Natural Disasters; Personal Memoirs; Ships & Shipbuilding - General
First sentence: As he steered his speeding twenty-six-foot gillnet boat Marlene out across the Copper River Delta in Alaska's Prince William Sound on a gray, windblown afternoon in 1981, Skip Holden could not have known that within hours he would be engaged in a hellish struggle just to survive, nor could he have imagined how many lives would be so profoundly affected by the outcome.