Prince William Spends New Year's Morning in Daring Rescue Effort

While the rest of the world was ringing in 2013, the heir to the British throne was trying to rescue a man who had been swept out to sea in northwest England. It was just 15 minutes after midnight in England when the call came in that an unnamed 41-year-old man walking his dog on a pier was had been swept into the sea. Prince William, a helicopter search and rescue pilot in the Royal Air Force, was in the air within a minute, battling 50 mile per hour winds as the frantic 90-minute hunt. The...Full Story