 After earning wings through Navy Flight School in 1994, Beale was assigned to USCG Air Station Brooklyn, New York as an HH-65 helicopter pilot in 1996.During a subsequent aviation assignment at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Beale was the first on scene responding to the sunken vessel Beth Dee Bob.This case and three others like it within a 13-day period in 1999 brought about significant changes to commercial fishing vessel regulations and inspections, and became the subject of a book titled "The Sea's Bitter Harvest" by Douglas A. Campbell
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