Air Guard pararescue team leaps onto a freighter at sea to rescue patient
Search and rescue teams from the 129th Rescue Wing pulled off a long-distance, two-day mission to medevac a mariner suffering stroke symptoms.
October 24, 2025
Search and rescue teams from the 129th Rescue Wing pulled off a long-distance, two-day mission to medevac a mariner suffering stroke symptoms.
Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, was crushed by Antarctic sea ice and sank in November 1915. Since then, it has been widely considered that Endurance was the strongest polar ship of its time and was lost because ice tore away the rudder.
When a schoolboy going for a run found the ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists and local historians to uncover its story.
The USCGC Storis is the U.S. Coast Guard’s new polar icebreaker that was assigned a homeport in Kodiak, Alaska.
The coloration may be caused by volcanic ash or simply dirt that hasn’t seen the light of day in millenia.
Designed to carry Ariane 6 rocket parts, Canopée sails challenging routes between Europe and French Guiana.
