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Triple Award Winning Book now out in PaperbackSo Others May Live Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
Foreword by Governor Tom Ridge So Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer. The triple award winning book recently was featured on the Weather Channel's documentary "When Weather Changed History." In startlingly clear and exceptional writing, it tells twelve heroic stories of the greatest maritime rescues attempted by Coast Guard aircrews since the program was started in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the hero, reveal an understanding of how and why the rescuer, with flight crew assistance, risks his or her own life to reach out to save a stranger. The book covers diverse environments: oceans, hurricanes, oil rigs, caves, sinking vessels, floods, Niagara Falls and even Hurricane Katrina. It is truly a can't-put-it-down collection. Martha J. LaGuardia-Kotite author of this collection of Coast Guard rescue swimmer stories is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Commander in the US Coast Guard Reserves. So Others May Live is her first book. For author event locations go to the "EVENTS" section of this site. MORE REVIEWS: "All I can say is “WOW, I have relived the entire experience from start to end”!! You told the story so well…. Thank you for telling our story and all the other stories… Thank you once again; I can’t thank you enough…" Dave Barber (USCG Ret.) (Flight Mechanic who saved Yoder's life before the hoist cable completely sheered apart 400 miles off the East Coast in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", Ch 11) ___________ "So Others May Live" by Martha LaGuardia combines compelling stories and factual history into a book so riveting I could not put it down. Mixed with the history of the Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Program, the stories of the intrepid early rescue swimmers themselves and some of their most challenging rescues kept me reading late into the night; I just had to keep reading one more gripping story of Coast Guard heroics. Jean Wilczynski, Editor, The Bulletin US Coast Guard Academy Alumni Association |
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