It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world.
Their would-be rescuers were 150 miles away at the Coast Guard station, with the nearby airport shut down by.
In January 1998, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a cataclysmic Arctic storm with hurricane-force winds and towering Seas forced five fishermen to abandon their vessel in the Gulf of Alaska and left them adrift in thirty-eight-degree water with no lifeboat.
It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world