Run the storm
Subtitle: a savage hurricane, a brave crew, and the wreck of the SS El Faro
By: George Michelsen Foy
Contributors: Thorndike Press
Edition: Large print edition. Unabridged.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9781432852719
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Cargo ships; Hurricanes; Large type books; SS El Faro (Cargo ship); Shipwrecks; Hurricane Joaquin, 2015
Description: "On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a massive American cargo ship that made regular runs between Jacksonville, Florida and Puerto Rico, 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. The sinking was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II. The ship had a seasoned crew, state-of-the-art navigation equipment, and advance warning of the storm. How, in this day and age, could something like this happen?"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Crew or the SS El Faro; title: Author's Note; title: Part I. The Silence; title: Part II. Departure; title: Part III. The Sailing; title: Part IV. In Harm's Way; title: Part V. The Quantum of Shipwreck; title: Part VII. Aftermath; title: Acknowledgments; title: Note on Sources.