Showtimes:

Today ( 10/16) - 7pm
Monday (10/17) - 10pm
Wednesday ( 10/18) - 7pm

If you don't watch it, this episode re-iterates the usefulness of text message. A man text messaged family out of the area, gave them an update on him and his family's condition. That family member posted the information on the U.S. Coast Guard website. Someone (not clear if it was the Coast Guard, or the family) got a satellite photo of the house based upon the address. The address was converted to Lat/Long and given to the rescue crew.

They were able to go directly to the house in question. Unfortunatley, they got no response from inside the house.

It also shows that having spray paint and axes in your home kit.

It was pretty intersesting to watch, given the fact that the whole episode is: Rescue Swimmer down.... Rescue Swimmer up... repeat.. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hey! I was a rescue swimmer before the Guard decided we needed trained rescue swimmers <img src="/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" /> My first tour of duty was at Airstation Kodiak and I'm one of the few blackshoes( aviation personel are nicknamed brownshoes) who qualified as an aircrewman, we being short on personel. In those days we flew HH3 and HH52 amphib helicopters. If we couldn't land in the water or the survivor was to weak to climb into the Stokes litter somebody had to jump in , which I did 2 times. Radio discipline was a little different too. It was more along the lines of " Kav shoved out" followed by "Survivor aboard, do we want to keep Kav?" and the classis " Kav throwing up. Oh man, he had Tapioca and S.O.S. this morning." It's not swimming in heavy surf that will get you, but looking at it from a helo door trying to judge jump distance <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Really looks like you DID have a lot of fun, at the time ..... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />