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Into the raging sea : thirty-three mariners, one megastorm, and the sinking of El Faro /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Slade, Rachel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
El Faro (Cargo ship)
Merchant ships > United States.
Merchant marine > United States.
Shipwrecks > Bahamas.
Hurricane Joaquin, 2015.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity.
NATURE / Natural Disasters.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation.
Table of Contents:
  • The clock is ticking
  • Blount Island
  • Tropical Storm Joaquin
  • Third Mate Jeremie Riehm
  • A hurricane is not a point on a map
  • Second Mate Danielle Randolph
  • Collision course
  • Hull number 670
  • Afternoon
  • Captain Michael Davidson
  • Question authority?
  • The Jones Act
  • Evening
  • Night
  • Necesitamos la mercancía
  • Dawn
  • The raging sea
  • We're gonna make it
  • We've lost communication
  • Search and rescue
  • Flight to Jacksonville
  • Ships don't just disappear
  • Profit and loss
  • The truth is out there
  • How to sink a ship
  • Admiral Greene clears the air
  • Portrait of incompetence
  • Mission number two
  • The proof is in the pudding
  • Voices
  • Twenty-four minutes
  • Spirits.