Over 32 years ago, the fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch became trapped in the ice-encrusted Bering Sea near St. Paul, Alaska and was in danger of being swept onto the breakwater rocks outside St. Paul Harbor. | Flickr
Over 32 years ago, the fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch became trapped in the ice-encrusted Bering Sea near St. Paul, Alaska and was in danger of being swept onto the breakwater rocks outside St. Paul Harbor. | Flickr
Over 32 years ago, the fishing vessel Alaskan Monarch became trapped in the ice-encrusted Bering Sea near St. Paul, Alaska and was in danger of being swept onto the breakwater rocks outside St. Paul Harbor.
Coast Guard Cutter Storis and an HH-3 helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Kodiak, under the command of LT Laura H. Guth, responded.
After a flight of 600 miles, including a winter crossing of the Alaska Peninsula and 400 miles of open water, Guth and her crew rescued four of the six-man crew before waves crashed over the vessel and swept the two remaining mariners into the frigid water. They both were quickly pulled from the water safely.
Original source can be found here.
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