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" (Coast Guard footage)  A Coast Guard 60 Jayhawk helicopter pulled four shipwrecked fishermen from the 43 degree waters of Alaska&amp;#039;s Bering Sea late on Wednesday afternoon. The men were found in a life raft about 100 miles west of Adak, on the far end of the remote Aluetian Island chain.   Their boat, the 93-foot Katmai, begun taking on water in the stern compartments late Tuesday night, as the ship was on its way back to the port of Dutch Harbor after fishing for cod. At 1:08 a.m. on Wednesday, the Coast Guard picked up a signal from the ship&amp;#039;s Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon, or EPIRB. There were 11 people on board. As of Friday afternoon, five bodies had been recovered, one by the Coast Guard and four by Good Samaritan fishing vessels.  To pull the survivors from the icy swells, the four-man 60 crew lowered their &amp;quot;rescue swimmer&amp;quot; into the water in the helo&amp;#039;s rectangular rescue basket. The metal basket is attached by a cable to a hoist on the outside of the helicopter [see video]. The swimmer, who wears a dry suit, mask, snorkel, and fins, swam to the life raft, then pulled each survivor away from the raft to help him into the basket. At the swimmer&amp;#039;s signal, the helo&amp;#039;s flight mechanic operated the hoist to pull each survivor up in the basket, all the while feeding &amp;quot;conning&amp;quot; commands to the pilots, who hover the 65-foot machine approximately 60 feet above the waves. On Friday, the search continued for the remaining two crew members, with a Coast Guard helicopter, a C-130 airplane, and a 213-foot Coast Guard cutter all completing computerized search patterns. After three days in the frigid seas, however, the odds of finding more survivors seemed minuscule. The incident is reminiscent of the loss of the 187-foot fishing vessel Alaska Ranger, which sank in March with 47 people on board (see Inside the Coast Guard&amp;#039;s Most Extreme Rescue). Like the Katmai, the Ranger began taking on water in a stern compartment in the early morning hours and sunk shortly thereafter. Twenty fishermen from the Alaska Ranger were successfully airlifted by Coast Guard, while twenty-two were rescued by Good Samaritan vessels. Five members of the crew perished in the Bering Sea.\u2014Kalee Thompson  (Coast Guard footage)  RELATED STORIES \u2022 Inside the Coast Guard&amp;#039;s Most Extreme Rescue   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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