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2006-07-26 Great White North

Ship "Cougar Ace" was adjusting ballast when things went to hell in a handbasket

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-07-26 14:38|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Zoom Zoom.... Kerplunk.

Posted by Capsu 78 2006-07-26 15:48|| 2006-07-26 15:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Pave Hawks 'eh? Handy things.

Posted by 6 2006-07-26 20:15|| 2006-07-26 20:15|| Front Page Top

#3 first of all look at the ppl of Adak for helping these ppl out, when in my opinion they had probably never heard anything good about the US outside of the US. 2 why is the alska air national guard equipped better than the US coast guard in this area where it so dangerous in the first place?

Posted by . 2006-07-26 20:34|| 2006-07-26 20:34|| Front Page Top

#4 One man, Saw Lucky Kyin, 41, also of Myanmar, was in the shower when the boat tilted...

Better than being in the head when the boat tilts.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-07-26 20:51|| 2006-07-26 20:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The Coast Guard mission is to guard the coast, so with their limited budget, etc etc, they rarely use the pave hawk system. The Coast Guard has bases in Sitka, Kodiak, and some other places in Alaska. The C130s can drop off stuff quite a ways out to sea, but helicopter rescues far at sea are at the end of a very long and tenuous food chain.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-07-26 22:24|| 2006-07-26 22:24|| Front Page Top

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