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Missing boater found clinging to capsized vessel 86 miles off Florida
A 62-year-old boater who had been missing since Friday was found Sunday clinging to his capsized vessel off of Florida's Atlantic coastline, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The agency had been searching for signs of Stuart Bee and his 32-foot boat since he was reported missing on Friday.
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190lb bull mastiff is carried from hiking trail after getting stuck
Officials rescued Floyd, a 190-pound, 3-year-old Mastiff, and his owner on a trail in Millcreek Canyon near Salt Lake City, Utah, after several hikers called to report that the two were unable to move.
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Bra clasps save turtles lives
A North Carolina wildlife rescue came up with an ingenious way to mend cracked turtle shells.
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Rangers free 6 trapped baby elephants in Thailand
Rangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit. Park officials said the elephants were unable to climb up the pit’s slippery banks. Rescuers took five hours on Thursday to dig a path for them to clamber out. A video taken by rangers at Thap Lan National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima province shows the baby elephants climbing one by one from the muddy ditch.
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Dog lost in hills rescued by helicopter
The Coastguard crew were on a training exercise when they spotted the dog on a narrow ledge above a steep drop.
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The young sisters who spent 44 hours in the woods survived on rain water and granola bars
Leia and Caroline Carrico, 8 and 5, went missing Friday when they wandered into the woods near their home. In a new interview with the "Today" show - their first since being rescued - the sisters detailed the 44-hour-ordeal. On Friday afternoon, the sisters asked their mom, Misty Carrico, if they could go for a walk in the woods. She said no - but they went anyway. "Leia wanted a little, tiny adventure, but I wanted more," said Caroline, the 5-year-old.
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Footprints in the snow lead to an emotional rescue
"She stared at a single set of footprints in the snow ahead of her. She’d been following faint tracks in the snow all day but hadn’t given them much thought because so many people climb the Jewell Trail. She fixated on the tracks and realized they had been made by a pair of sneakers." By Ty Gagne.
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Husky Trapped On Roof Thanks Man Who Saved Him In The Sweetest Way
You wouldn’t be worried if a cat was stuck at the roof of a house because they have a nice grip and they can handle themselves and rescuing them, with their small size of a body wouldn’t cause much trouble. But what do you when a 10-year-old husky is stuck on the roof? Captain Jeff Nawfel, a firefighter, was in a similar dilemma recently.
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Drowning kangaroo rescued by police
The kangaroo was moments from death when two police officers jumped into the sea to rescue it.
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Woman treaded water for 10 hours after falling from ship, sang to stay alive until rescue
A 46-year-old British woman, Kay Longstaff, fell off of a Norwegian Cruise Line around midnight Saturday, plunging into the Adriatic Sea.
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Firefighters saved a man having a heart attack and then they finished his yard work for him
When a man had a heart attack while laying sod in his front yard, first responders not only saved him, but they also finished the job for him. By Christina Zdanowicz. (July 9, 2018)
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Thai cave rescue latest: Boys cry after discovering hero diver Saman Kunan died for them
The 12 members of the Wild Boars football team and their coach are expected to leave hospital this week after they were trapped underground in a flooded cave for a marathon two weeks. Photos released by the health ministry show the young football team members crowded around a sketch of Kunan writing messages on it and bowing their heads in commemoration at his remarkable actions.
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Elon Musk calls British diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' in Twitter outburst
Elon Musk has called a British diver who helped rescue schoolboys from a flooded cave in Thailand ‘pedo guy’ on Twitter. The entrepreneur’s outburst came after diver Vern Unsworth told Mr Musk to “stick his submarine where it hurts” after describing his offer to help with a miniature submersible as a “PR stunt”. Mr Musk travelled to the Tham Luang caverns in Chiang Rai this week and presented the six-foot submarine - which he said could help free 12 schoolboys stranded for weeks inside the cave.
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With all odds against them, here's how rescuers pulled off 'miracle' Thai cave feat
The steel air tanks glittered under the beams of floodlights as a pair of rescuers defogged their masks and adjusted the straps. They checked their regulators one last time before embarking on what would become their most famous dive.
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Coach Ek the unlikely stateless hero of cave drama
Schooled as a monk and now hailed a hero, football coach Ekkapol Chantawong is one of several stateless members of the "Wild Boars", a team whose survival after days trapped in flooded Tham Luang cave,e fixated a country that does not recognise them as citizens. Coach Ek, the 25-year-old who was among the last to emerge from the cave on Tuesday, has been lauded for keeping the the young footballers - aged 11-16 - calm as starvation loomed in the dark.
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The doctor who chose to stay in the cave
It was his rare combination of talents that led Australian doctor Richard Harris deep into the Tham Luang cave in Thailand. When the Wild Boars football team was located deep inside the cave, after being missing for a week, the Adelaide anaesthetist abandoned his holiday in Thailand and volunteered to help. He went in to assess the boys' health and stayed with them for three days. It was under his direction that the weakest boys were first led out with the others successfully following in the complex operation.
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All 12 boys, coach rescued from Thai cave, ending gruelling18-day ordeal
The rescue mission ends an ordeal that lasted more than two weeks.
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Elon Musk visits Thai cave, delivers kid-size submarine – just in case
American space entrepreneur Elon Musk tweeted that he was in Thailand on Tuesday with a prototype mini-sub, at the flooded cave where five members of a youth football team remained trapped.
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4 more boys freed from Thai cave, bringing total rescued to 8
Rescuers in Thailand on Monday freed four more members of the boys soccer team stranded in a flooded cave complex, as part of the second phase of a desperate rescue operation that aims to save four more kids and the team's coach before heavy rains imperil the effort. Four ambulances with flashing lights were spotted leaving the area as an aide to a Thai navy SEAL commander told the Associated Press that four boys were brought out of the cave on Monday, bringing the total to eight rescued so far.
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People airlifted from deadly Japan floods
Parts of western Japan hit by deadly floods and landslides face unprecedented danger, officials warn, with more downpours expected. Scores of people have died, while about 1.5 million people have been ordered to leave their homes and three million more advised to do so. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the rescue effort is a "race against the clock".
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