The Coast Guard's top 11 videos from 2009 include footage of pirates, fires on board, a medevac from a Navy submarine.

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More from this issue:

• Meet the luckiest sailor alive
• An EPIRB and some Lady Luck
• Sailing alone, but never lonely
• Tom Neale’s ICW Log: Part II
• Former Earthrace trimaran a casualty of ‘Whale Wars’
• America's Cup 2010: clash of the multihulls
• How-to: DIY deck repair