Sentences with phrase «boat rescue in»

As the text notes at the end of the film, this rescue remains the greatest small boat rescue in the history of the Coast Guard.

The action thriller is based on the true story of the greatest small boat rescue in Coast Guard history.

THE FINEST HOURS: Based on the extraordinary trust story of the greatest small - boat rescue in Coast Guard history, THE FINEST HOURS is a tale of courage, loyalty and honor in the face of overwhelming odds.

Not only is it well made, but it tells the true story of the most daring small boat rescue in the history of the U.S. Coast Guard, its thrills enhanced in Digital and IMAX 3D.

Most of that respect goes to Bernie Webber (Chris Pine), the young Coast Guardsman who directed the greatest small boat rescue in the group's history.

Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay written by Scott Silver, Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy, «The Finest Hours» chronicles the greatest small - boat rescue in Coast Guard history.

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Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and economic migrants have reached Italy in the last few years, after rescue at sea when smugglers» boats founder in the Mediterranean.

In the movie, Mark Rylance plays such a character, an older man who takes his weekend boat to rescue stranded soldiers.

«There were so many calls for rescues, so many people trapped on overpasses, on houses, in their cars, we were scrambling to find boats and dump trucks, anything to maneuver in high water,» said Hayes.

The Springfield, Missouri - based hunting, fishing, camping and outdoor recreation retailer provided more than 80 Tracker boats to local, state and federal government agencies and rescue organizations in the widely flooded city, as well as in other impacted communities in Texas.

Five have died in the flooding so far, with citizens and rescuers dodging light poles and power lines in boats as they try to rescue people in stranded neighborhoods.

If you live in the Houston area, the sheriff's office is asking for people with boats and vehicles that can handle high water to help with rescues.

On Monday morning following the landfall of Hurricane Harvey, Johnathan Wojtewicz headed to Houston in his truck towing a Jet Ski equipped with a boat deck capable of rescuing nine to ten people and animals.

Instead the unbelievable was now happening: the captain had to turn his boat back, moving ever so slowly in the hope that rescue might yet come from somewhere.

Not long ago my fiance» and I spent hours hoping I would be rescued from hypothermia and drowning in a boating accident miles from shore and 30 + miles from the closest road access.

Remember that story about the guy in the flood who prayed for God to rescue him and after refusing rescue boats and helicopters because God was going to save him?

«It took us three hours to retrieve 11 bodies because the mixture of petrol and water is so potent that we just couldn't risk being in that boat for long periods of time,» Michele Telaro, the field coordinator for the Doctors Without Borders rescue missions, told The Independent.

He is the man in the boat holding out His hand to rescue us.

He lies distraught in the Florida sand after being rescued from death's double assault — a heart attack during a boating accident where he almost killed his granddaughter.

Philanthropists Christopher and Regina Catrambone will use drone technology and have bought a boat once used for search and rescue in the US.

They had squeezed into their attic and lived there for all these days in sweltering heat as they waited to be rescued by the boats.

Russian River Rising, More Rain on the Way: A driver in a Hummer became trapped in flood waters on a rural road west of Santa Rosa early Monday afternoon, generating a large emergency response including the Sonoma County sheriff's helicopter, a swift - water rescue team and a boat of firefighters...

Knievel was rescued by boat on the near side of the river, his body unharmed, his reputation ruptured — Icarus in muttonchops.

The Stearns Infant Classic Boating Vest (click here to see it in more detail) has a float above the neck designed to keep the child's head above the water if they fall in, and of course, meets all of my criteria, being Coast Guard approved and with a strap and rescue handle.

On the other hand, it seems likely that the prospect of being rescued in this way provides an incentive to migrants to embark on journeys that are visibly unsafe, and that where states have broken the link between rescue and access to their territory — as the Australian government has done by adopting a policy whereby migrant boats are either towed back to their point of embarkation, or else their occupants are assessed in offshore detention centres, with those qualifying for refugee status placed in third countries — the stream of boats rapidly dries up, and with it the loss of life.

Reports say the operators of the vessel identified a leakage and begun a process to get the passengers ashore by calling in rescue boats.

Two boats belonging to the Ghana Navy, which were on a training exercise in the area, came in swiftly to rescue the passengers and crew on - board.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. and Oneida County Sherriff Robert Maciol announced today that Oneida County is donating a boat formerly used by the Oneida County Sheriff's Office to the Town of Western Fire Department for the Fire Department's use in rescue situations on Delta Lake.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has sent New York Air National Guard personnel and equipment, including rescue aircraft and boats, to assist with the response in Texas.

We tried cutting rescue services in the Med and they still got on those boats.

Another boat came over and rescued people in the water.

He likely would have been thrilled by the crowd of more than 100 people, the beautiful weather and mostly by the large flotilla of boats — including the Coast Guard, fire and rescue craft from Greenport, Shelter Island, and Orient, and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Patrol — in the harbor to pay homage to him, hospital president and CEO Paul Connor III said.

To understand the impulse, Greene and Amitai Shenhav, a doctoral student in his lab, asked volunteers to imagine piloting a rescue boat toward a drowning man when they get a call saying that another boat, in the opposite direction, has capsized and its passengers are also drowning.

They are also told that another rescue boat is approaching the second group and may or may not reach the people in time.

I was drowning in a river and instead of waiting for the rescue boat; I swam to the edge all by myself.

Among other things, I ran the Great Wall of China Marathon; worked out on a pearl boat in the Kimberley; appeared semi-naked in a music video wrapped only in cling wrap; worked on a Norwegian reality TV show filmed in Malta; trained eagles in Mongolia; donned a wig and lived like Dolly Parton in her hometown in Tennessee for a month; rode a bicycle around Taiwan; sailed on a pirate ship from Seattle towards Mexico before hitting a storm and having to be rescued by theUS Coast Guard; and helped educate young girls in Kosovo who are banned from attending school because they wear headscarves.

People pulling out their boats to help with rescues, opening up homes to friends and even strangers needing to evacuate, and checking in on neighbors.

In this iconic scene, Anne's boat has sunk and - of all the people who could rescue her - along comes her academic rival Gilbert.

At Station Ketchikan, a local man requires help from the boat crew; at Sitka, a helicopter - rescue team battles powerful winds to get to a vessel in trouble.

The men in the boat, on their way to save the survivors of the tanker disaster, is equally obvious but a little more difficult to fathom: the need to rescue.

As production on the film within the film begins — it's a story of two heroic sisters who head across the English Channel in a fishing boat to rescue stranded British soldiers — Their Finest presents a clever glimpse into the filmmaking process, all the ego and compromise and jerry - rigged scrappiness of it.

Originally tasked with inventing women's dialogue — dubbed «the slop» — in war - related shorts, she is soon recruited to help flesh out a full - length civilian rescue - mission adventure that unfolds during the Battle of Dunkirk, featuring comely patriotic twin sisters who become boat - commandeering heroes.

News of their tragedy spreads to the Coast Guard and Bernie Webber (Pine) risks it all by taking a small crew in a motor boat out to rescue them.

When the British navy calls for all civilian ships to aid in a rescue, Foreman takes out his own small boat and attempts to bring Tubby and his men home safely.

But British citizens in ordinary boats succeeded in conducting a heroic, unprecedented rescue that saved their army.

Bernie and his crew: Richard Livesay (Ben Foster), Andy Fitzgerald (Kyle Gallner), and Ervin Maske (John Magaro), take off against all odds in a too - small boat against too - big waves in a desperate attempt to rescue the tanker crew that includes brilliant engineer (and quiet leader) Ray Sybert (Casey Affleck) and characters played by John Ortiz and Graham McTavish.

One of our ideas revolves around the idea that technology can essentially become the eyes and ears of a search and rescue team, pinpointing the location of a person or boat in trouble and making the entire process more efficient.

The ideas were born from the students» personal experiences of working on the rigid hull inflatable boat (RIB)-- the world's most widely used craft for inshore rescue, developed in the 1960s by Rear - Admiral Desmond Hoare, the College's founding principal, and tested by College students.

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After a confrontation with his tyrannical captain, he is marooned in a ship's boat — left to die at sea.When Elizabeth and her crew, being pursued by Intrepid, find and rescue Colin, the two learn that their lives are entwined in a macabre way — they have a common enemy, Captain Beauregard Dangerfield, the demented master of Intrepid, and a growing mutual attra...