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Chargement... Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea (2007)par Michael J. Tougias
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Yet another page-turning ocean disaster story told by Tougias, author of Ten Hours Until Dawn. This book follows a similar formula to his others. The story is well-researched drawing on interviews and newspaper articles at the time to comprehensively retell an amazing true story from multiple perspectives. This is a non-fiction about Lobster fisherman, who made their living at Georges Bank. This life is never easy, and has dangers on its best day, but fishing the lobster rich waters of Georges Bank was both was both rewarding and more risky than other sites. We are given another look into the lives of Bob and Peter Brown. We have heard about them before, in Sebastian Younger's book The Perfect Storm, the story of the Andrea Gail. They each are captain of a lobster boat on November 21, 1980. Through research and interviews done years after this date, the author gives us a window into what occurred in their lives on this day. This is not their story, however. Not this time. They are players, but the main character is Earnie Hazard. An aptly named survivor of the storm that the National Weather Service failed to predict. Failed due to negligence. What was meant to be just another day in the perilous waters of Geroges Bank, became a fight to survive for the men of several small boats. Ordinary men, trying to make a living for themselves and their families. Ordinary heros might be a more precise term. This is a story of survival, courage and honor among friends. I recommend it highly.
Two crucial weather buoys in the North Atlantic had not been operating for a considerable amount of time when the storm developed. The Weather Service was aware of this equipment failure and continued to issue forecasts for the region without the crucial information the buoys would have provided. The judge found the Service responsible for an inaccurate forecast stating that negligence in issuing the forecast was a “substantial factor” in loss of life.
A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea. One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather--but a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast, a maelstrom the National Weather Service did not accurately locate until the boats were already in its grip. Battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds, the crews struggled heroically, but the storm soon crippled one boat and overturned the other, trapping its crew inside. One man managed to crawl inside a tiny inflatable life raft and spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift on the stormy open sea. That day, brave men and women from the Coast Guard and the crew of a nearby fishing boat imperiled their own lives in order to save the lives of others.--From publisher description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I really enjoyed this book and it gave me my non fiction fix. ( )