by the time laura gooth maneuvers her chopper over the bow of the monarch, four crewmen are ready to leave the ship. while the crew s being rescued, captain morris hanson and his engineer decide to stay aboard and wait it out. the captain is reluctant to leave his ship. he said that he wanted to try one more time. he wanted to try one more time to try to salvage the vessel. yeah, we ve just grounded. we just grounded. just after we moved off, they went on the rocks. the wind and relentless surf have pushed the monarch too far. so the coast guard radios back down. they want to take hanson and his engineer off the ship. gooth sets her coast guard helicopter at the bow again. and wearing survival suits, the captain and the engineer will need to cross the boat from the wheelhouse to the bow. from our point of view they got about halfway across. we saw the captain slip, go down on his knees, and this huge
him. and this is where the flight man told me he s got the basket but he s got a chunk of ice on top of him. hanson has been in the water more than two minutes now, and even with a survival suit on, with the weight of the ice on his chest, laura gooth knows hypothermia has to be setting in. even if we had gotten the basket right to him, did he have enough strength left over? fortunately the answer is yes. i can remember coming up to the doorway and my arms felt just like lead and i tried to lift them and they just hurt, ached. and the thing that went through my mind was, god, i finally get rescued, and now i m going to die of a heart attack. but captain hanson isn t having a heart attack. he is, as laura gooth expects, hypothermic.
monarch telling them we re coming close to the rocks, we re putting our survival suits on. when we heard them say, survival suits on, that keys us to say, this is not a salvage anymore, boys. we d better be ready for a rescue. by the time laura gooth maneuvers her chopper over the bow of the monarch, four crewmen are ready to leave the ship. while the crew s being rescued, captain morris hanson and his engineer decide to stay aboard and wait it out. the captain is reluctant to leave his ship. he said that he wanted to try one more time. he wanted to try one more time to try to salvage the vessel. yeah, we ve just grounded. we just grounded. just after we moved off, they went on the rocks. the wind and relentless surf have pushed the monarch too far. so the coast guard radios back down. they want to take hanson and his engineer off the ship. gooth sets her coast guard helicopter at the bow again. and wearing survival suits, the captain and the engineer will need to cross the
i have never seen anybody get in a basket that fast. he wanted out of there real bad. now it s the skipper s turn, if they can get him. at this point, you can just barely see the captain. we re getting the basket down to him. and this is where the flight mech told me he s got the basket but he s got a chunk of ice on top of him. hanson has been in the water more than two minutes now, and even with a survival suit on, with the weight of the ice on his chest, laura gooth knows hypothermia has to be setting in. even if we had gotten the basket right to him, did he have enough strength left over? fortunately the answer is i can remember coming up to the doorway and my arms felt just like lead and i tried to lift them and they just hurt, ached. and the thing that went through my mind was, god, i finally get rescued, and now i m going to die of a heart attack. but captain hanson isn t having a heart attack. he is, as laura gooth expects, hypothermic. he also has a cracked rib
ships. we hear the captain from the monarch telling them we re coming close to the rocks, we re putting our survival suits on. when we heard them say, survival suits on, that keys us to say, this is not a salvage anymore, boys, we d better be ready for a rescue. by the time laura gooth maneuvers her chopper over the bow of the monarch, four crewmen are ready to leave the ship. while the crew s being rescued, captain morris hanson and his engineer decide to stay aboard and wait it out. the captain is reluctant to leave his ship. he said that he wanted to try one more time. he wanted to try one more time to try to salvage the vessel. yeah, we ve just grounded. we just grounded. just after we moved off, they went on the rocks. the wind and relentless surf have pushed the monarch too far. so the coast guard radios back down. they want to take hanson and his engineer off the ship. gooth sets her coast guard helicopter at the bow again. and wearing survival suits, the