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Author Melady, John.

Title Heartbreak and heroism : Canadian search and rescue stories / John Melady
Published Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 217 pages) : illustrations
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Birth of Para Rescue; 2 Tragedy on Baffin Island; 3 Cold War Crash; 4 Smashed Up, Sucked Down, Destroyed; 5 Rescue Shock; 6 All in a Day's Work; 7 Fire at Sea; 8 The Fury of a Flood; 9 For Better or for Worse; 10 Heartbreak and Heroism; 11 Rescuing the Rescuer; 12 Rooftop Rescue; 13 Diver Down; 14 Crash at the Top of the World; 15 Death in the Snow; 16 That Others May Live; 17 By Parachute at Night; 18 The Cruel Sea; Epilogue
Summary This book is about some of the most dramatic search-and-rescue operations in Canada. Whether the action is on the heaving deck of a sinking ship off the Newfoundland coast, within the incredibly confining walls of a power plant in Ontario, or high on a cliff face on a British Columbia mountain, each of these stories is exciting, memorable, and true. They are accounts of courage, loyalty, perseverance, and sacrifice that knows no bounds. We read of the heartbreaking last days of an Anglican missionary fighting for his life in a lonely Arctic outpost. Another chapter relays a dramatic rooftop res
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Subject Canada. Canadian Armed Forces -- Search and rescue operations -- History
SUBJECT Canada. Canadian Armed Forces fast
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Search and rescue operations
Genre/Form e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554881864
1554881862
1550022873
9781550022872
9781459714502
1459714504