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Heartbreak and heroism : Canadian search and rescue stories /
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...
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Press,
©1997.
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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