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we first heard about it the night before we launched we heard that there was an overdue skiff out of platinum that had been missing for a couple days and the district wanted us to head out there as soon as the sun started coming up the next day to try to find them we launched very early in the morning it was two o'clock in the morning we went out to do a first light and we got on scene the sun was just coming up about 4 30 and we started our search we weren't close enough to df on it so we finally found the location uh with some help of the victim he told us that he was in a fog bank inside of an ice floe sitting on top of an ice blow so we used the radar i attempted to use the casper it was unsuccessful due to the fog being so thick we identified the ice flow and then through the df and him uh vectoring us and we're fortunate enough to locate the conditions initially we were where we were looking were very good um but we had to bingo fuel and that's when climbing through 23 000 feet o