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" After rough water prohibited attempted life raft rescue attempts, U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska Air National Guard helicopters successfully rescued all 23 crew members of a sinking cargo ship in the Bering Sea Monday night.  Three helicopters fought through turbulent weather hundreds of miles from the Aleutian Islands to remove the crew from their sinking 654-foot vessel, the Cougar Ace, and brought them all to safety. The Cougar Ace was shipping about 5,000 cars from Japan to Canada when it began listing to its port side the night before the rescue. What caused the listing is unknown.  Unlike the rescue mission of the Selendang Ayu, which sank in the same waters and killed six people in December of 2004, the only reported injury was a broken ankle. Nonetheless, this newest incident is very similar to the one Popular Mechanics covered last year. Read all about what went wrong in The Wreck Of The Selendang Ayu. \u2013Erin ScottbergSaved: A rescue helicopter similar to those that plucked a crew from their sinking ship in the Bering Sea earlier this week. U.S. COAST GUARD/CUTTER ALEX HALEY "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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