This is a true story of the U.S. Coast Guard’s most daring sea rescue.
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor’easter in years.  While this storm raged on, two oil tankers, the Pendleton and the Fort Mercer, found themselves in the same horrifying predicament.  Built with inferior steel, these tankers were not prepared for such ferocious seas.  The tankers split in two, leaving dozens of men on board at the Atlantic’s mercy.  This valiant attempt to rescue these men, were met with one obstacle after another.  Not all eighty-four men survived this horrifying ordeal, but is a miracle that anyone survived to tell their tale.