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| Kevin Costner | Ben Randall | |
| Ashton Kutcher | Jake Fischer | |
| Derek Adams | Lapp | |
| Sela Ward | Helen Randall | |
| Gregory J. Barnett | Pilot Doug Lathrop | |
| Melissa Sagemiller | Emily Thomas | |
| Clancy Brown | Capt William Hadley | |
| Omari Hardwick | Carl Billings | |
| Alex Daniels | Wild Bill | |
| Joseph 'Butch' Flythe | Butch Flythe | |
| Adam Peña | Benjamin Reyes | |
| Johnell Gainey | Johnell Lewis | |
| Matt Laub | Matt Stokes | |
| Robert E. Watson | Robert Watson | |
| Neal McDonough | Jack Skinner | 
| Director | 
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| Producer | Armyan Bernstein Beau Flynn | ||
| Writer | Ron L. Brinkerhoff | ||
| Cinematography | Stephen St. John | ||
| Musician | Trevor Rabin | 
|  | A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice | 
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