An acclaimed Red Dog series that aired on Discovery last fall, SOS: Coast Guard Rescue, showed the U.S. Coast Guard's rescue swimmers working amid nature's most harrowing calamities. The series, however well wrought, owed something of its success to fortune. Schlossman spent months solving knotty technical problems - mounting special cameras onto rescue swimmers' helmets, waterproofing battery packs - then rigged eight Coast Guard crews with recording gear. If a major hurricane made landfall, Schlossman's cameramen were pre-approved to deploy with Coast Guard
After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Schlossman's cameras recorded about 300 dramatic rooftop rescues.
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