Author: Peter R. DicksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entrepreneurship
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Missing the Boat and Sinking the Boat
Author: Peter R. DicksonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Entrepreneurship
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
Missing the Boat and Sinking the Boat
Author: Peter R. DicksonMissing the Boat
Author: Mich HutchinsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781446418185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The missing boat
Author: Missing boatLost At Sea
Author: Patrick DillonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684869098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Recounts the story of the fishing boats Americus and Altair that capsized in the icy waters of the Bering Sea in 1983 and killed all on board. Includes reading guide.
438 Days
Author: Jonathan FranklinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501116290
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
The Lost Boys of Montauk
Author: Amanda M. FairbanksPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982103248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--
Missing the Boat and Sinking the Boat
Author: Cheryl GaimonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Torn in Two
Author: Michael SchumacherPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452952167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Dennis Hale reached the dock just in time to see the Daniel J. Morrell heading out to open waters, a 600-foot freighter that had plied the waters for sixty years, carrying ore from Minnesota’s Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boat—which meant scrambling to rejoin the Morrell at its next stop or forfeiting a good chunk of his pay package. Seventy-two hours later, Hale would find himself clinging to a life raft alongside the frozen bodies of his crewmates in the violent waves of Lake Huron. The boat would not be reported missing for another twenty-seven hours and by the time the life raft was found, Dennis Hale would remain as the sole survivor of the wreck of the Daniel J. Morrell. This is life-and-death drama on the inland sea as only Michael Schumacher can tell it. In Torn in Two the great Lakes historian recreates the circumstances surrounding the terrible storm of November 29, 1966, that broke the mighty freighter in half, sending twenty-five of the Morrell’s twenty-nine-man crew to their deaths and consigning the surviving four to the freezing raft where all but Hale would perish. At the heart of Torn in Two are the terrible hours spent by Hale on the life raft with his crewmen, clinging to life for thirty-eight hours in freezing temperatures and wearing only a peacoat, life jacket, and boxer shorts. The fight to save Hale and find the others, the Coast Guard hearings into what happened, the discovery of the wreckage—Schumacher’s vivid narrative captures every harrowing detail and curious fact of the Morrell’s demise, finally doing justice to this epic shipwreck fifty years past.
The Death Boat
Author: Lloyd B. CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781795084796
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 135
Book Description
In the twilight of a summer evening, on a bustling Iowa lake in 1929, two speedboats collided. Nine people were killed, and boating in the state was changed forever. "The Death Boat" is the story--told in detail as never before--of the crash on West Lake Okoboji in northwestern Iowa. One boat, Zipper, had been a prime attraction at Arnolds Park, an amusement park and entertainment mecca on the water that drew vacationers from across the country. The other, Miss Thriller,was a newcomer to the lake touted as the fastest boat in the world carrying passengers for hire. Friction, even sabotage, ensued as the boat operators competed to become king of the lake. The rivalry ended in disaster. Within hours, before the last passenger's body had been brought to shore, questions swirled: Had Miss Thriller's, captain been careless? Did the inexperience of the other pilot cause the collision? Did the bitter rivalry figure in the deadly encounter? And finally, would the recovery of Miss Thriller, from its resting place 96 feet deep in West Lake Okoboji reveal the accident's cause? The enduring mysteries of the crash long have remained in the dark, much like Miss Thriller, after she sank into the depths of West Lake Okoboji. "The Death Boat" pieces together accounts that shed light on those mysteries.