Tyler Benson

• Aug-2012
• / General Fiction
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One stormy night, a homeless dog looking for shelter wanders onto a Coast Guard station in St. Ignace, Michigan. She finds a dry and cozy hiding spot inside a boat's compartment. When the boat launches and heads into the Straits of Mackinac for ...

• Jul-2013
• / Action Adventure
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One windy, November day, a cry for help comes into the Coast Guard Station in St. Ignace, Michigan.  A plane has crashed on Mackinac Island and it's up to The Guardians of the Straits to answer the call.  The Coasties quickly rush to their motor...

• Dec-2013
• / Action Adventure
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In this non-stop adventure, Onyx and her fellow Coasties work with the Buffalo Police to save a sinking yacht.  Then the Coast Guard must enter the dangerous exclusionary zone of Niagara Falls to rescue a family trappedon a disabled, drifting boa...

• Jul-2014
• / Historical
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Onyx and the Guardians of the Straits are back in another exciting adventure!  During routine helicopter operations with Air Station Traverse City, the Coast Guard is suddenly called to rescue a mother and daughter stranded in Lake Michigan.

• Dec-2014
• / Historical
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Onyx and Hogan are ready for another adventure, but this time they aren't on a mission to save lives, they're on a mission to save Christmas!  Once a year the Mighty Mackinaw becomes the Christmas Tree Ship, delivering trees to families in Chicag...

• Jul-2015
• / Historical
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Onyx and Hogan are celebrating at the Coast Guard Festival in Grand Haven, Michigan, when they are called back to duty to battle the blaze of a tug and fuel barge that is on fire in Lake Michigan.  When the captain arrives on the bridge to brief ...

• Dec-2015
• / Historical
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Hogan and Onyx are aboard the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alder as it makes its annual voyage across Lake Superior to where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank forty years earlier during a violent storm.  As Hogan, Onyx, and the rest of the crew brave gale...

• Jul-2016
• / Historical
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Rosie the Response Boat is the newest Coast Guard team member. She is a good leader and works with the other rescue boats to teach new Coasties how to prepare for missions. Proppie is mistrustful of Rosie because she is new and different. But when...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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The Chicago to Mackinac Island sailboat race has entered the final mile of their 333 mile journey, but they're in trouble.  An overnight weather shift is causing high gusts and huge waves.  More than 350 sailboats are trying to make it to the fi...

• Sep-2022
• / General Fiction
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It is Onyx's last mission. She and the crew must save more than a hundred people trapped on a half-mile slab of ice that has broken loose from the shoreline and drifted into the Straits of Mackinac. This rescue mission will take the response of e...