Rescue In The Pacific A True Story Of Disaster And Survival In A Force 12 Storm

Author : Tony Farrington
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071398909
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rescue in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm written by Tony Farrington and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1998-03-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June of 1994 a dangerous "bomb" storm caught dozens of cruising sailors by surprise as they voyaged north from New Zealand. This is the true story of how nine yachts struggled to survive the hurricane-like conditions. Boats were battered by fierce winds and capsized by seas towering well over 50 feet high. Equipment was ripped loose, and water penetrated every weak point. Masts collapsed, rudders broke, and sailors lost steering control when they needed it most. The crews coped as best they could with injury, fear, exhaustion, and illness. Their electronic calls for help were picked up by satellites and radio operators, who initiated a massive air and sea search. This is the story of heroic rescues, human endurance, and tragic loss.

Author : Kurt Mondloch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595369626
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flight of the Osprey written by Kurt Mondloch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After raising their son and daughter, Kurt and PL Mondloch decide to circumnavigate the world aboard their sloop, the Osprey. As they prepare for their voyage in San Francisco, they receive a disturbing message. Their son, on a backpacking expedition in India, has gone missing. Kurt flies to the Indian Himalayas to try and find him, sparking a major international investigation and dragging the family into a world they never imagined. Eventually an overseas phone call destroys the couple's fragile cocoon of hope-their son and his girlfriend were swept away by a monsoon-swollen river. Reeling from the death of their son, Kurt and PL must make a choice: either mourn endlessly or move on with life. The couple decides to sail around the world as a balm for their spirits and as a tribute to their late son. Over the course of almost seven years and an incredible journey of 40,000 miles, their phenomenal memories and fresh horizons help extinguish the pain and recharge their lives.

Author : Bob Drury
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846297
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Halsey's Typhoon written by Bob Drury and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a disaster at sea during World War II is “a powerful and engrossing story of tragedy, survival, and heroism” (Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down). In the final days of 1944, Admiral William “Bull” Halsey is the Pacific theater’s most popular and colorful naval hero. After a string of victories, the “Fighting Admiral” and his thirty-thousand-man Third Fleet are charged with protecting General MacArthur’s flank during the invasion of the Philippine island of Mindoro. But in the midst of the landings, Halsey attempts a complicated refueling maneuver—and unwittingly drives his 170 ships into the teeth of a massive typhoon. Halsey’s men find themselves battling ninety-foot waves and 150 mph winds. Amid the chaos, three ships are sunk and nearly nine hundred sailors and officers are swept into the Philippine Sea. For three days, small bands of survivors battle dehydration, exhaustion, sharks, and the elements, awaiting rescue. It will be up to courageous lieutenant commander Henry Lee Plage to defy orders and sail his tiny destroyer escort, the USS Tabberer, back into the storm to rescue drifting sailors. Revealing a little-known chapter of WWII history in absorbing detail, this is “a vivid tale of tragedy and gallantry at sea.” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : John Rousmaniere
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780071377959
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Storm written by John Rousmaniere and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of loss and survival by one of America's finest nautical writers After the Storm is John Rousmaniere's most ambitious work ever, the unique expression of a master storyteller and authority on seamanship who has survived storms at sea. Each of the book's stories of seafaring disaster­­many little known, all exciting and of deep human interest­­presents a broad human drama. Rousmaniere tells of the hopes and choices that put these sailors in harm's way. He takes readers into the gales themselves with authoritative knowledge of horrific weather and the split-second decisions that seamen must make. Finally, he explores the consequences of these disasters for survivors, rescuers, families, communities, and in some cases nations. The pursuit of these elusive strands leads the reader deep into our ambivalent relationship with the sea as both "destroyer and preserver."

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Author : DeWitt Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1488 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Author : Rose Arny
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1896 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1044 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 3310 pages
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