In 2011, it was announced that Barrymore had been cast alongside John Krasinski in Ken Kwapis's Big Miracle ( 2012 ), a romantic drama based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales from being trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.

The U-boat abandoned the rescue effort and left the survivors to drift to Africa.

In the Marvel Zombies continuity, Shang-Chi is turned into a zombie during a multi-hero effort to rescue surviving civilians.

Air traffic control presumed an emergency and a rescue effort was organized, including a Finnish Border Guard patrol boat.

Near Torzhok there was a similar situation, as increased air traffic was created by a rescue effort for an air crash that had happened the previous day.

The rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks comprised the local, state and federal agency reaction to the September 11 attacks.

* 40 Senators visit New York City to see the rescue and recovery effort firsthand.

Arafat and Abu Jihad blamed themselves for not successfully organizing a rescue effort.

* February 5 – A rescue effort, called the First Relief, leaves Johnson's Ranch to save the ill-fated Donner Party.

Trained volunteers from Pierce's equestrian program assisted the county rescue effort.

* 1979-81-Iran becomes an Islamic republic after the overthrow of American-backed shah ; militants seize 63 American diplomats for 444 days during the Iran hostage crisis ; America seizes $ 12 billion in Iranian assets ; American rescue effort fails ; hostages and assets are freed on January 20, 1981.

A successful rescue effort was mounted, but the only homes that awaited the Naskapis were the shacks that they built for themselves on the edge of Pearce Lake, near the railroad station, with scavenged and donated materials.

Later, when word gets back to Britain that Matholwch has been mistreating Brânwen, Manawydan joins Brân's rescue effort.

But the operation was called off before the rescue effort could begin.

" In search and rescue, a rain dance is a method of estimating how far apart searchers in a line search should be spaced so as not to miss clues and not to waste searchers ' effort.

The Aerodrome was modified and flown a few hundred feet by Glenn Curtiss in 1914, as part of his attempt to fight the Wright brothers ' patent, and as an effort by the Smithsonian to rescue Langley's aeronautical reputation.

When the rebels reached the town lock-up ( in an effort to rescue the prisoners ), they encountered constable Michael Melvin and in the ensuing scuffle broke his leg.

In 1989, following a 20-year rescue and restoration effort, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra returned to Orchestra Hall.

After the late-2000s financial crisis commentators noted that the Federal Reserve Board used its power to grant exemptions from Federal Reserve Act Section 23A ( part of the 1933 Banking Act and the “ principle statutory ” firewall between banks and their affiliates ) to permit banks to “ rescue ” various affiliates or bank sponsored participants in the “ shadow banking system ” as part of a general effort to restore liquidity in financial markets.

Batman lunges and grabs one of leather gloved hands in an effort to rescue him.

Many Response Teams deployed to assist in the rescue and recovery effort of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake.

In this new position, Faisal set about cutting spending dramatically in an effort to rescue the state treasury from bankruptcy.

Another program, the Emergency Rescue Committee was also partly funded with Rockefeller money ; this effort resulted in the rescue of some of the most famous artists, writers and composers of Europe.

Ten additional destroyers joined the rescue effort on 26 May and attempted rescue operations in the early morning, but were unable to closely approach the beaches, although several thousand were rescued.

Heracles took this opportunity to wound Ares in the thigh and beat him to the ground, which caused his sons Phobos and Deimos to rescue him and take him back to Mount Olympus.

On 11 August 1897 at Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, India, Lieutenant Colonel Adams, with two other officers ( Viscount, Alexander Edward Murray Fincastle and Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean ) and five men of the Guides, went under a heavy and close fire, to the rescue of a lieutenant of the Lancashire Fusiliers who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by enemy swordsmen.

Rejecting treatment for his own severe face wound, he continued to rescue the injured for six hours.

On 17 August 1897 at Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, British India, Lieutenant Murray with two other officers ( Robert Bellew Adams and Hector Lachlan Stewart MacLean ) and five men of the Guides, went under a heavy and close fire, to the rescue of a lieutenant of the Lancashire Fusiliers who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by enemy swordsmen.

On 17 August 1897 at Nawa Kili, Upper Swat, British India, Lieutenant Maclean, with fellow officers Robert Bellew Adams and Viscount, Alexander Edward Murray Fincastle and five men of the Guides, went under a heavy and close fire, to the rescue of a Lieutenant Greaves of the Lancashire Fusiliers who was lying disabled by a bullet wound and surrounded by enemy swordsmen.

Chris, Phoebe, and Paige managed to rescue them from this alternate world and have Gideon heal Leo from his Darklighter arrow wound just in time.

More importantly, early next year the Pathé production unit down in the south of France in Nice made le Médecin du chateau ( The Physician of the Castle ), in which there are cuts back and forth between criminals threatening a doctor's wife and child, while the doctor himself drives home to rescue them after being warned by telephone.

In another account, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mother from Zeus ' advances, was flung down from the heavens by Zeus.

Clark originally joined the Navy during the Vietnam War ( as John Terrence Kelly ) and became a Navy SEAL who participated in several special operations, one of which was the rescue of a naval aviator shot down over North Vietnam.

When the government abandons the men for political reasons, Clark and Jack Ryan fly down to Colombia and rescue the survivors.

The bowline is well known as a rescue knot for such purposes as rescuing people who might have fallen down a hole, or off a cliff onto a ledge.

The sharp head of the spear pierced right through the plates and through his body, stabbing him beyond rescue ; thus was that chieftain struck down to death.

Only when Orpheus came down to the Underworld to rescue Eurydice did it stop spinning because of the music Orpheus was playing.

Jacques dives down to rescue him.

With the help of Nick and some of the other inmates such as Twitch ( Ricardo " Kurupt " Brown ) and Little Joe ( Michael " Bear " Taliferro ), Sascha sets out to rescue June and bring Donny down, before Alcatraz becomes everyone's final resting place.

Following his midnight march to rescue the city of Gibeon from the coalition led by the King of Jebus ( Jerusalem ), Joshua pursued the coalition eastward, down through the descent of Beth-horon, and then southward across the Valley of Aijalon.

On 1 May 2001, the 347th Wing stood down as a composite wing and stood up as the 347th Rescue Wing ( 347 RQW ), becoming the Air Force's only active-duty combat search and rescue wing.

Two years earlier, Colonel Van Swearingen led a dozen soldiers by longboat down the Ohio to help rescue the inhabitants of Ft. Henry in Wheeling in a siege by the British and Indian tribes in 1777.

At that very moment, an airplane came down from the sky to rescue me from the moment of death.

Several hikers climbing down from the trail towards the cascades have required an expensive helicopter rescue due to steep and slippery terrain and features.

In 2005, Rivera engaged in a feud with The New York Times over their allegations that he pushed aside a member of a rescue team in order to be filmed " assisting " a woman in a wheelchair down some steps in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Firefighters break down the door and rescue him as they put out a fire in his house.

The story of the rescue attracted extraordinary attention throughout Britain and made Grace Darling a heroine who has gone down in British folklore.

The crew of the HMS Haslemere spotted her parachute coming down and although she was seen alive in the water, a rescue attempt failed and she drowned.

Wickwire was able to slowly climb out with an ice axe, but was unable to rescue Kerrebrock, who was alive but wedged in tightly ( Kerrebrock couldn't feel his hand when Wickwire touched it ) still wearing his backpack and upside down.

The best and most reliable method for operating-system-level rootkit detection is to shut down the computer suspected of infection, and then to check its storage by booting from an alternative trusted medium ( e. g. a rescue CD-ROM or USB flash drive ).

Kretschmer's strength was evidently failing in the cold ocean ; his own rescue was at the hands of a British sailor who climbed down the nets and plucked him from the water.

A Medevac Huey commander, she was sent to rescue the crew of a Black Hawk that had been shot down.

Coordinator Vansell ( the head of the CIA ) and President Romana attempted to track down the Doctor and Charley to rectify the consequences of her rescue from the R101 disaster.

The navy used the exchange to enable direct communication with vessels, as well as using it to direct air-sea rescue craft to pick up pilots shot down in the Straits of Dover.