Torn in Two
Subtitle: The Sinking of the Daniel J. Morrell and One Man's Survival on the Open Sea
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780816695218
Subjects: Shipwrecks; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.; Huron, lake (mich. and ont.)
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 Minnesotas Iron Range to steel firms around the Great Lakes. The twenty-six-year-old watchman had, quite literally, missed the boatwhich 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.