Into the Raging Sea

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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, and cutting edge weather forecasting could suddenly vanish until now.Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves whose conversations were captured by the ship s data recorder journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro As she recounts the final twenty four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out Captain Michael Davidson s increasingly bizarre commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm Taking a hard look at America s aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping a cut throat industry plagued by razor thin profits and ever violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking men and women who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit. Download Into the Raging Sea By Rachel Slade – kino-fada.fr Over the radio, Captain Michael Davidson told his crew to throw their rafts in the water and get off the ship But how could they even walk out onto the deck in those winds, let alone deploy a life raft Everything people, rafts, life suits would be whipped away by Hurricane Joaquin and into the waves, or thrown back against the ship s steel hull to be crushed The air was solid with salt and water You couldn t breathe out there The crew probably crowded around the door leading to the Over the radio, Captain Michael Davidson ...Received as an ARC via my employer Barnes Noble Started 4 9 18 Finished 4 12 18 Investigative journalism at its best Will keep you involved from beginning to end like a good fiction book but it s all true The sinking of this cargo ship and the deaths of its crew could have been avoided but for the ignorance, apathy, greed, and emotional instability of the parties involved This book should be used as a textbook in all maritime academies in the world It would also help to have it be r Received as an ARC via my employer Barnes Noble Started 4 9 18 Finished 4 12 18 Investigative journalism at its best Will keep you involved from beginning to end like a good fiction book but it s all true The sinking of this cargo ship and the deaths...This is very expertly researched and accounts for every bit of the varying events that caused the sinking of the El Faro.In short, the company TOTE fucked over their crew by having out of date software and hardware Captain Davidson wasfocused on his own career than getting safely to Puerto Rico Danielle and Schultz were worried about coming on too strong In short, bad business practice and poor comm...This is a fascinating account of the sinking of El Faro, a 700 ft shipping vessel in 2015 The book delves into modern shipping, the history of ship building, and the pressures of capitalism without ever neglecting the human stories The reco...3.5 sA lotsocial commentary than most of the books I ve read in this genre This book tackles corporate avarice, global warming, outdated legislature and other topics which all played into the demise of these 33 souls The sea doesn t suffer mistakes lightly.Important story, amateurishly told The author had access to recordings of conversations on the bridge, which is great, but she made up thoughts and emotions to go along with those conversations There s no way she could have known what a crew member was thinking or feeling The book is also stud...Clusterfuck Oh my This book will make you angry The anger will increase as you move along, when you get to the details of the hearings that took place in the aftermath of the disaster you will be outraged I wanted to throw the book through a window The book, however, for me, was only so so It s likely the issue is just my ability to take a book like this It has to be investigatory It can t be a story only The author provides great detail I just could not enjoy reading this I grew up i Clusterfuck Oh my This book will make you angry The anger will increase as you move along, when you get to the details of the hearings th...An excellent and harrowing account of the loss of a ship with 33 people aboard during Hurricane Joaquin in 2015 For those who wondered how a ship could have deliberately moved into the path of a tropical system like this the book provides the answer.Unlike the classic The Perfect Storm, which this book might be compared to, the author of this book has access to a valuable resourcethan 25 hours of recordings made on the bridge of the ships officers conversations Much like an airliner An excellent and harrowing account of the loss of a ship with 33 people aboard during Hurricane Joaquin in 2015 For those who wondered how a ship could have deliberately moved into the path of a tropical system like this the book provides the answer.Unlike the classic The Perfect Storm, which this book might be compared to, the author of this book has access to a valuable resourcethan 25 hours of recordings made on the bridge of the ships officers conversations Much like an airliner s black box, the device recorded conversations of those steaming into harms way, and it makes for harrowing reading Particularly moving are the last...Not my usual reading, but I read an excerpt in Vanity Fair and was completely knocked out by the author s ability to make me see the crew of El Faro, feel like I knew them without being all corny Hollywood about it and I could envision the boat, the towering stacks of containers, imagine the terrific power of the sea 33 people on a 700 foot boat vs hurricane I d never given much thought to the importance of shipping in the global economy, even though I see containers leaving the Port of Sea Not my usual reading, but I read an excerpt in Vanity Fair and was completely knocked out by the author s ability to make me see the crew of El Faro, feel like I knew them without being all corny Hollywood about it and I could envision the boat, the towering stacks of containers, imagine the terrific power of the sea 33 people on a 700 foot boat vs hurricane I d never...I don t usually like boat, sea faring, arrrr kind of books however, this was fascinating A true story about the El Faro that sailed out of Jacksonville headed to Puerto Rico in the midst of a storm that they knew nothing about It was heartbreaking but also super interesting I learned a lot about the shipping industry which most of take for granted , a lot about the Coast Guard and about the types of people that run these ships and love the sea Personally, my husband and I boat around Jac I don t usually like boat, sea faring, arrrr kind of books however, this was fascinating A true st...

Into the Raging Sea
  • 03 January 2017
  • Kindle Edition
  • 416 pages
  • Rachel Slade
  • Into the Raging Sea