{"id":4171,"date":"2012-09-11T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:41","slug":"largest-boat-rescue-ever-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/largest-boat-rescue-ever-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering 9\/11: The Largest Boat Rescue Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below impressed me not only by the actions of civilian boaters but especially by the numbers of people rescued and the short time it took. It&#8217;s a great example of people helping people, and it is quite timely as we remember 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>The largest sea evacuation in history; carried out primarily with civilian boats, without any preparation or practice, simply because there was a need. The previous record holder was the evacuation of Dunkirk, where 39,000 soldiers were rescued over a period of 9 days.\u00a0 The 9\/11 evacuation rescued almost 500,000 people in less than 9 HOURS. Enjoy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MDOrzF7B2Kg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If the embed does not work, click here: <a title=\"View on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MDOrzF7B2Kg&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to view on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video below impressed me not only by the actions of civilian boaters but especially by the numbers of people rescued and the short time it took. It&rsquo;s a great example of people helping people, and it is quite timely as we remember 9\/11. The largest sea evacuation in history; carried out primarily with civilian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/largest-boat-rescue-ever-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering 9\/11: The Largest Boat Rescue Ever&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21588,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/21588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}