Rachel Slade

Into the Raging Sea (eBook, ePUB)

Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The harrowing true story of the sinking of the American container ship El Faro, the crew of thirty-three who perished onboard, and the destructive forces of globalization that put the ship in harm's way

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanishuntil now.

Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselveswhose conversations were captured by the ship's data recorderjournalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers' anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out their captain's increasingly bizarre commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America's aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shippinga cutthroat industry plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.

A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking crew of El Faro who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062699718
• Artikelnr.: 52496507

Autorenporträt

Rachel Slade is a Boston-based journalist, writer, and editor. She was a staff writer at Boston magazine for ten years, and her writing earned her a City and Regional Magazine Award in civic journalism. She splits her time between Brookline, Massachusetts, and Rockport, Maine.