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The Kodiak-based Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley escorts the 738-foot cargo vessel Golden Seas while under tow to Dutch Harbor by the tug Tor Viking II Dec. 5, 2010, 50 miles west southwest of Dutch Harbor in the Pacific Ocean. The Golden Seas requested a tow after suffering a turbo-charge failure Dec. 3 limiting power and steerage. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Sara Francis.

Fierce Arctic winds and towering 30-foot seas assaulted a 738-foot freighter with 20 crewmembers aboard finding themselves helplessly adrift with limited engine power in the midst of an ice-cold storm 70 miles north of Adak. Trouble loomed on the horizon as they were drifting toward land carrying more than 132,277 pounds of rape seed used to make canola oil, 450,000 gallons of fuel oil and 11,700 gallons of diesel fuel with the only help more than 400 miles away.

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