Mayday Ship Sinking! | Coast Guard Alaska | Full Episode 

That make a shivers men whoo.

I'm fed up of the navy the army and the airforce thinking they are better than smaller services. You are all there with the aim to help people and save lives so grow the hell up that's some high school bs right there immature asf

The Space Force replaced the Coasties as the most ridiculed branch anyway.

Semper Paratus

After 3.5 years in The Marines Corps, Danang Vietnam, I served 5 years in The Coast Guard as a Radioman. Proud I did so.

Brass balls? Fuck that... lead ball

BALLS

prezbige lol yeah I noticed as soon as I posted it xD

Yes, this comment.💎

🤣🤣😂😂

Are you still fishing ❤

thats the way it is when ur out on the water even on a lake if ur a real fisherman and u see another persons broken down u always offer even if ur in the middle of trolling for something big, u always ask if they need a toe because if u were in there siuattion youd sure want there help

@@soulsreaper7145 i could only hope all people do this not just fishermen

I've heard of fishermen accidentally catching dolphins and shit, but catching people? Not sure if it's legal, but it definitely is epic

@@constitutionalli7522 Maritime Law requires a vessel to render aid to anyone in distress at sea.

@@frankish5314 Only if doing so does not put your crew in danger. Rendering aid may be to just call the coast guard and trying to keep coms with the master of the vessel that is in distress.. lastly I believe @Constitution alli was being funny.. And I agree with him, it was def epic as hell. Especially as Coast Guard Alaska (who are trained for this) failed once and the second crew were complaining about how cold they were.

@EL ROBO I have to ask, if you’re a S&R pilot in AZ, why was your wife in Alaska 🤷‍♂️

@@ObamaFromKenya People take vacations lmao

Thank you Sir! People like you are what makes the world turn.

@@ObamaFromKenya she was backpacking with our neice who lives in AK. It was her bucket list item. Agent orange finally got me so I couldn't go.

Why yr wife hiking in bushes at night?

His body and his mind were at war. His mind won - he was going to put himself into a non-survivable situation, because that was his job. Thank God the rest of the crew came to their senses and called him back.

The fact it scared the guys that go out in almost any conditions says enough to me.

I have been so distressed I vomited. To know that guy was going to push through that distress and go into the water blows my mind. Some people are giants.

He knew those giant fucking nuts would keep him afloat!!

I lost a friend stationed. His name was Clyde Hinson, he was flight corpsman. Clyde and crew were on a rescue mission out of Kodiak, his bird went down whole crew was lost. Semper Parades Clyde rest in peace.

Cancer always takes the purest hearts.

🙏🏼♥️

It was always fun seeing the Coast Guard Cutter swiftly turn around and randomly board the fishing boats in the Bering Sea. They are the law enforcement on the high seas , too. enforcing fishing seasons and protecting the stocks of fish from poaching. One of our crew lost a finger and they heard the call to Dutch Harbor. They came out and got him even though it was not life threatning

@@utistudent099 yes sir they are Johnny on the spot,fished the bering sea

Back in 89 90 91. It was a site to see and experience for an ole southern illinois boy what a life i had as a young man.

Kenneth Grimes That exactly when I worked there. 1990 - 1998. Ocean Tempest crabbing and then I spent some years on the Trawlers . Ocean Rover. We were bought out by American Seafoods and then I called it good. What an awesome adventure for a kid barely twenty years old

I feel it glad I never been here! But I’ve fished some nasty weather

Military pilots in general are

Watch "The Horn" on Netflix. Coast Guard has some insane pilots but the alpine rescue crews in Switzerland have rescues down to a science. Much more efficient than the USCG in my opinion.

We all know that's bullshit

Holyshit right? I was thinking thats gotta be the worst steady to hold. Do the waves effect turbulence at all anyone know?

D M just read ur comment yeah that makes more sense solid uneven terrain for sure makes it awkward af

Yes sir I’m from Alaska and had a few buddies and there families saved from them. Amazing men and woman.

@@user-cw4ce5rl1v Im from alaska to

That’s what they train tirelessly for. I fuckin love every single one of them.

somethings fishy here, maybe someone can explain.. or im thinking too hard.. first the dispatch says its 115 miles away from them .. idk how far it takes to travel by heli to the ship needing support. but then @ 4:40. the mechanic says " it basically took us 2 hrs to fly 5 miles cause of the wind" ?? wuutttt??? the trips 115 miles awayyyy.. then they get ack to base at 1:15am.. second crew leaves at 4am 3 hrs vanished..... then another vessel is sinking.. shows other crew "halfway" to kimberly" now its 6am.. were tf 2 hrs go...boom its 8 am there back.. kimberlys prbably been in the water since 12 midnight.. second crew comes back 8:30 says theres 90kn winds which is 103mph.. they need to direct this more in order shits all over the place.. idk if its even possible to fly a heli in 103 mph winds. hurricance is 60-70kn.. there in 103mph winds.. idk.. maybe the bump the numbers for suspense an entertainment for the viewer.

@@BayAreaBully7667 i think he meant the last 5 miles of the trip took them 2 hours, cause they were trying to ease towards the location of the boat, and hover above it, and the winds were really bad coming off the mountains..

@jake... HEROES!!!!!

I first saw James's face looking sick and then not a minute later they said he was throwing up. Then the guy doesn't hesitate to jump out.....man, balls of steel!

@@unimog875 Seriously!

Bravery is _not_ "feeling no fear". Bravery is feeling the fear and doing what must needs anyway!

OMG I bet. I have a fixed wing instrument rating and even the thought of flight into known icing scares the crap out of me.. These guys hovering in 90kt winds and icing etc.. damn its impressive.

❤ amazing videos. I read your comment and was very impressed that you also are a pilot watching the same w/a comment. I don't know but I like it. ❤

Most hardcore moment…rescue swimmer has finished vomiting and is ready to be hoisted down into 125 mph winds and 25 foot frozen seas.

@@snowsurfr90 bro - no need to exaggerate!

Vanargand I’m here bro too

Vanargand nah I’m only 15 I’m gonna enlist in the marines tho when I can

Vanargand thx man

Been watching these videos for a couple weeks now and honestly it's gotten the idea in my head to move somewhere that has Coast Guard to enlist. Maybe not Alaska, but somewhere with water haha.

@@balmung37 You don't have to move anywhere first. Join the USCG, they send you to bootcamp. After graduation, they will send you where you are needed. You do get to pick your billet from a list. (job and location) The better you do in boot camp, they more you get to choose from (#1 graduate gets first pick, etc) Personally, I was #3 in my class and got the third pick from a class of 80. I went to Hawaii. Not sure where the 80th recruit went, but probably no place great, since it was the last place left on the list. So do your best in training! As you become rated (specific job), you get a list to choose from of the available job openings for your specific rate and rank. I'm not sure about the other branches, but the USCG gives you some choices on where to be stationed. You can even submit a "Dream Sheet", a list of where you want to go. If something opens up, your dreams come true!

Amen

Heroes? The left the guys on the boat, I mean I'm not done with the video but these guys are really making themselves out to be the "puddle pirates"

@There's A lot Of Mouth Breathers I can't tell if you're talking like that for the joke or not

@@AmericanBusinessman422 Are you in the service? Have you gone and put your life and that of your crew on the line to save anyone? You should finish the video. If there is no way to get them up to the chopper, there is no way. Not to mention, they were there for a very long time. You only saw a few minutes of this. Sometimes, it simply can't be done. Would you just kill a whole crew and crash a chopper, when there is no way to get them out of the water? Your comment is idiotic at best.

@@barbaravance6774 awww did I hurt a puddle pirates feelings?

And he still wanted to go out the door. God bless that man.

then turns around and is ready to jump in. legendary

@@AnimeHighLife But trained for it.

@@culbyj3665 anyone who has ever been sea sick, or in this case air sick, knows that there is no training that can prepare you for that. That is just straight up rock hard heart. When you reach the point of throwing up from your equilibrium being out of whack, there is nothing but gumption that can keep you moving. 99% of people curl up and cry.... Been there and done that.. I know which group I lay in and it aint the 1% lolol!!! I spent quite a bit of time offshore in my mid teens. I had been out maybe 20 times for either day trips, or weekend trips. One of the boats that I went out on several times had a regularly scheduled trip that would leave on Thursday night , go 80-100 miles offshore, fish, then return on Sunday. Pretty salty group of old timers that were "the regulars". At any rate, I had been offshore quite a few times and never been seasick. Important to note here that I had always taken dramamine prior to this trip. Well in my infinite wisdom at 15 years old, I thought "I dont need to take that dramamine this time...i never get seasick". Well apparently dramamine was the determining factor in whether I get seasick or not and since I decided against taking it this trip...i got seasick...bad. We no sooner made it to the first spot and dropped baits and I immediately realized I had made a HUGE mistake, by the time I realized that I did indeed need to take dramamine, it was WAY too late and trying to take the pills only resulted in immediately throwing up . I spent the next 36 hours being the idiot kid who threw up in the galley where everyone was eating breakfast. When the deckhand told me in no uncertain terms that I was going to clean my mess up and find somewhere else to lay , it took everything I had ,plus some , just to get up and spend 3 minutes cleaning up my mess. I literally could not get out of the fetal position. MISERY. Point of all this - I distinctly remember how miserable that day was (30 years later) and I cant even begin to imagine feeling like that and having to get into a hoist amd get dropped out of a helicopter into 70 mph winds at freezing temps.....that is insane. Literally seems beyond human capability to my mind. I cant fathom the mental fortitude that it would take to do that.

@@ramrodrymensnyder2648 Quite a story, Sir! Thank you for sharing...I have been seasick but only very mild. Still, it sucked! I couldn't wait to get back on solid ground!

@@jessstone7486 yeah I ended up actually making that mistake a couple times lolol!!! After that time, I went on several trips...no seasick (took dramamine)....made the mistake, AGAIN of thinking I didn't need dramamine. Those times of being seasick , stand out in my mind as being the absolute worst feeling a human can have. (At least as far as my experience has shown...several car accidents, countless broken bones, couple dozen or so at last count, I treated my body pretty rough lol) And again, I literally cant fathom the mental fortitude that it would take to feel like that and say "yep...lets do this" . maybe its different for each person, but the way I felt , there is no way I would have been going out on a hoist lol!!!

AMEN

Blessed we are with our US Coast Guard !😊

I hope they don't come for me. I'd be sleeping. The furious seas would be nothing compared to myself being woken up 😡

@@whoarewe7515 Sleeping? Are you on drugs? ☺️

@@SweetChicagoGator that’s good sleeping weather once you get used to it.

Thank you for you service. You are truly an amazing person ❤

Thanks for taking the risk many won't/can't. Not many people can say they've literally been the factor on whether or not someone comes home to their families.

Greg Heller thank you for your service

Thank you for your service Sir

same, i was pilot for f-15s these dudes, make me wanna sit down and take notes

Greg Heller I lived in Spokane Wa my entire life until two years ago. If you were flying B-52s, I would imagine you probably flew over my head at one point or another. If I’m not mistaken, I thought they used to keep a large portion of them at Fairchild Air Force Base. Ask for those guys flying that helicopter end of that storm on purpose, that takes some major testicular Fortitude! 😂👍🏻thank you for serving!!

That's sick did you ever drop a bomb?

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I'm glad you are able to watch shows like this now. That's a sign of healing 💗

Sorry for your loss hon! I agree with you tho

Very sorry for the loss of your brother.

I'm so sorry for your loss! I can't imagine how heartbroken you are. My brother is a now retired Coast Guard pilot. I can't tell how worried I was for him But, he loved it so much. It's really a calling for them. I know for him it was definitely about helping his community. When he wasn't on duty flying, she was a volunteer fire fighter. It's in their blood. 💕🙏🇺🇸

Eleven thankful lives. Well said.

One of my nephews flies SAR for the Coast Guard in Sitka, AK. This was difficult for me to watch. I am so very proud of these men and women Coasties.

@@marinashear3818 Go up to the 2nd comment for this video, and you should see an account user named “El Robo” mentions his wife being rescued from that location. He doesn’t mention Sitka but someone else commented that it must have been that location given the details listed. Maybe your nephew assisted in that rescue🤷🏽‍♂️ Glad there’s brave people like him who do this line of work!

Most GA aircraft would come to a standstill in those headwinds

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Been sailing in that weather. Its mad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sat in a fishing boat in 95 knot winds is quite a feat. All these people are good people.

@@highflyerl23 yea, have you ever seen the vids of the cubs doing vertical takeoffs in high winds, that happened in a bonanza to me... how tf these guys can hover here is beyond me

The guys that ran adrift were gonna be okay, the crew onboard heritage were in a bad spot though.

@@tiko4621 They were most definitely not in good shape. You've never been on a fishing boat and it shows.

Nobody said "in good shape".​@@codyking4848

Read the book called The Last Run. It's about USCG rescuing a bunch of people in the water in survival suits. I read it a long time ago, it was really good.

Watch "The Horn" on Netflix. You can thank me later :)

Honestly humbled to just watch the show you guys we appreciate your sacrifice in the eye of the storm makes me emotional

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O p popp you poppy posted oon was I noooo popposed

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@@dempseyclark8958 you can delete these comments if you click on 3 dots to right of your comments

Exactly, the Kimberly saved the Heritage. God at work that day!!

Wtf kinda America you living in cause the America I live in is anything but great.

@@MsNoPixel MOVE THEN IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!!! GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!

Sean McDaniel pointing out the issues our country has and the good in our country is real patriotism. denying that there are horrible issues going on in our country is the problem, and quite frankly very stupid. we should all acknowledge the problems and do everything we can to better our country instead of pretending it’s perfect.

@@MsNoPixel apparently a better America than the one you're living in....especially if you get so triggered over a simple comment that was expressing pride in these men's work.... get well soon!

I didn't say it was perfect, it's anything but perfect, but when you have an issue you don't comment"WTF I don't know where you live and slams the country I LIVE IN and proud of the GOOD PEOPLE in it, well that's just too bad. Everyone makes mistakes and instead of pointing out how stupid my comment was, that's not nice either. Say what you will that doesn't change how I feel. If we continue to pamper everyone, that just tells me we're going to accept that no one will be held accountable for ignorance, and change the issues that plague this nation. I'm sorry you feel the way you do. Have a great day.

I wouldn't say his little part, because without each cog on the gear, the wheels never will turn right! So, as people say, I'm just this or that! Never! You are a part of the team, and each cog needs grease, and by that I mean that each person is as important as the other! For without all the cogs, each team would not work very well! Plus, never be afraid to give moral support for them, not matter where they are in life! I try to encourage people and be a positive in their lives! They will strive much more than when people put them down! May he be safe!

@Jon Hoef I was Air Force, but honestly if I could do it all over again I would have joined the Coast Guard!

@Jon Hoef Thank you sir!

Our families have served in the USCG since it was the USLSS. Those they didn't serve depends on them as commercial fishermen and tugboaters from the coast of northeast NC. They are definitely Angels on earth. Can't imagine sometimes what we'd do without them. Hope people remember that when they board your vessel for safety equipment checks!!

100%

Thank you for your service

It's funny too cause at training they were like it someone was in the water and a ship was sinking would you jump out and someone was like: "Hello, Coast Guard". My friend was like: "jump where, mhmm I'm not jumping anywhere, you can die, but I have family, yeah teamwork".

@@isaiahbangura4421 Oh yea! haha thats a great story. As a Marine, I wouldn't do half the stuff those Coasties would do. One time at lunch, one of them bragged about the time they were stationed in Florida and him and another guy stopped a drug boat of like 50+ people and boarded it. I may be tough but I am not stupid. Him and another guy? Permission to come aboard my ass! If that was me and another Marine, we would get on the horn and call the local Navy ship I was working with and request assistance. There would be 10 Marine rafts showing up with a jet escort before I boarded that boat. Get the hell out of here haha! Those drug guys got lots of people with lots of guns and my Drill Instructor at boot camp told me I am not allowed to die. How the Coasties pull off this amazing crazy stuff everyday and wind up to rarely getting killed makes me tip my cover (hat) to them. Its got to be difficult getting off that boat with those huge brass balls.

@@gchsbus We Marines need about 5 platoons. I'll work weapons on the Navy ship. Even sometimes the Navy is like "Mayday Mayday, we saw guns and weapons". My friend was a squid and he would just send messages to the Coast Guard for stuff like that. He was like I'm focusing on the planes on the ship deck and only that.

coasties were in both world wars for amphibious ops and did just fine yknow

Eh, that's just a military thing. 😆 I come from an almost entirely military family. My Granddad was a Marine, My Aunt was Navy. My other family are almost all Army. But my brother is a now retired Coast Guard pilot. You should see our family get togethers. The heckling that goes on it epic! 😂 God Bless all of our troops, here and gone!💕🙏🇺🇸

Not one said Thank You :( no doubt it effects those going forward. So many expects. But many will learn, never expect anything.

We just took it in stride when the word "shallow water sailors" was mentioned cause we knew we were talking with the uninformed and uninitiated into the SAR Club. USCG 1983-2003, 1st duty station was AirSta Kodiak, I did know any better and enjoyed it. SAR DOG

Thank you

I'm definitely proud to know that these men are American they're what makes America so great.

@@trex2092: SAR DOG!!! Haven't heard that in a long time! Woof!

@@fezrez5252 "and women" hope you don't mind the edit... I'm sure you didn't mean to leave any of the team out.

They're Coasties. This just another day at the office for them. I'm Army, but I live in the Pacific NW. We got a lot of respect for Coasties out here.

Shouts to the PNW ✊🏼

@@carlhicksjr8401 Thank you, and some people called us "shallow water sailors". USCG 1983 -2004 Miss it.

@@trex2092 I got friends who are alive because the Coast Guard came for them. And one of my best friends retired as a CG WO2. No problem, 'pard.

@@trex2092 Bravo Zulu man, I am an auxiliarist served in USAF but currently serving with USCG Auxiliary. Love helping you guys as much as we can.

Where danger is cloaked by beauty! Yes,yes, quite!

My thought as well. I lived in Kodiak and still have family very close to USCG Kodiak...we love the Coasties.

Agreed 👍

Yeah, I thought that too. Makes more sense flipped.

Gerald Turner I’m a former H52 crewman (ASM2) out of Miami - Barbers Pt - Mobile. I’m envious of the machines today’s Coasties get to crew !

Cape cod! I go there all the time

In welfleet

And Provincetown

These guys make you proud to be an American.

You'll find that most old Coastie's stories are true...especially the lies!