Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival
Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival

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Overboard!: A True Blue-water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival

Book: Hardcover 16 - 03 - 2010

Product ID: 13450772

Condition: New
Publisher : Scribner

ISBN-10 : 1439145741

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Product Description From masterful storyteller Michael J. Tougias comes a new, heart-stopping true-life tale of maritime disaster, his most thrilling and amazing story yet. In May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the Almeisan, and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut across the blue waters of the Gulf Stream to sun-drenched Bermuda. The new crew included forty-six-year-old Kathy Gilchrist, seventy-year-old Ron Burd, and thirty-four-year-old Chris Ferrer. Although Tighe had made the trip forty-eight times, with Reidy accompanying him on twenty of those voyages, the rest of the crew had joined to learn more about offshore sailing. Four days into the voyage, an enormous storm struck, sweeping two of the crew into the towering sea. The remaining crewmembers managed to stay aboard the vessel as it was slowly torn apart by the rampaging ocean. Overboard! follows the simultaneous desperate struggles of both those still on the boat and those fighting for their lives in the sea. The Coast Guard, alerted to the Almeisan’s distress, rushed to the storm-tossed scene. Their ensuing search and rescue mission proved so spectacularly difficult and dangerous that it was later selected—from among thousands of incidents—as the Guard’s search and rescue case of the year. Highly trained helicopter pilots and rescue swimmers alike found themselves in almost as much trouble as those trapped by the ferocious ocean. By turns tragic, thrilling, and deeply inspiring, Overboard! is a riveting, fast-paced story of death and survival at sea—amazing, unforgettable, and all true. From Booklist Tougias, who with Ten Hours until Dawn (2005) rivaled Sebastian Junger (The Perfect Storm, 1997) in the telling of harrowing experiences at sea, returns with the tale of the yachts Almeisan and At Ease. Caught in a vast storm off the East Coast in spring 2005, the two experienced sailors aboard Almeisan were washed overboard. The captain died, but his first mate survived, thanks to a Filipino merchant ship, and the Almeisan’s three working passengers fast-learned enough seamanship to last until the Coast Guard arrived. The crew of At Ease all survived, but their ordeal was only slightly less harrowing, and the descriptions of it are quite as vivid. Tougias has a knack for getting those who go down to the sea in ships (or, sometimes, nearly under it in yachts) to talk to him and for weaving thoroughly absorbing sea stories out of what they disclose to him. Maritime history and adventure fans need this one. QY: add hyphen to Blue-water in bib data title? Per S&S Web site --Roland Green Review “I was frightened or astonished by every page of this beautifully told story of raging elements and human survival. And then the tale is ultimately and heartrendingly inspirational. You will not be able to put this book down.” —Dodge Moran, first American to sail solo, nonstop, around the globe “The power of Overboard! is much like an Atlantic storm. Michael Tougias lures us into a routine voyage to Bermuda with experienced crews and well found boats until we find ourselves utterly tossed about not only by the nightmare that ensues but also the courage, tenacity, and selflessness displayed by all caught up in the tempest. This is a survival story that ends in both tragedy and triumph, and through its players we are touched by a collective grace equal to the devastation that strikes them.” --Steve Callahan, survivor and author of New York Timesbestseller, Adrift About the Author Michael J. Tougias is the author of a number of books, including  Rescue of the Bounty : Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy;  Overboard!;  The  Finest Hours (with Casey Sherman), the basis of the major motion picture released in 2016;  Fatal Forecast; and  Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do. He is a sought-after lecturer

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