num_pages: 272
description: In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours an exquisitely written and dramatic booka literary page-turner (Doug Stanton #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle taking with it thirty-three lives.On October 1 2015 the SS El Faro a massive American cargo ship disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin a category 4 storm. The ship its hundreds of shipping containers and its entire crew plummeted to the bottom of the ocean three miles down. It was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II. The massive ship had a seasoned crew state-of-the-art navigation equipment and advance warning of the storm. It seemed incomprehensible that such a ship could sink so suddenly. How in this day and age could something like this happen? Relying on Coast Guard inquest hearings as well as on numerous interviews George Michelsen Foy brings us the most insightful exploration of this unthinkable disaster (Outside) a story that lasts only a few days but which grows almost intolerably suspenseful as deep-rooted flaws leading to the disaster inexorably link together and worsen. We see captain engineers and crew fight for their lives and hear their actual words (as recorded on the ships black box) while the hurricane relentlessly tightens its noose around the ship. We watch minute by minute all that is happening on boardthe ships mysterious tilt to one side worried calls to the engine room ship-to-shore reports the courage of the men and women as they fight to survive and the berserk oceans savage consumption of the massive hull. And through it all the pain and ultimate resilience of the families of El Faros crew. Now with a new afterword this tour de force of nautical expertise (Ocean Navigator) is a masterwork of stunning power.
language: English
title: Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
publisher: Scribner