The Perfect storm: a true story of men against the sea
Perfect storm
Sebastian Junger.
- New York : HarperPaperbacks, c1998.
- xv, 301 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Geirges bank, 1896 -- Gloucester, Mass., 1991 -- God's country -- The Flemish cap -- The barrel of the gun -- Graveyard of the Atlantic -- The zero-moment point -- The world of the living -- Into the abyss -- The dreams of the dead.
The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension. October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--A tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing boat tragically headed towards its hellish center.
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Northeast storms--New England. Natural disasters--History.--New England Fisheries--History.--New England Swordfish fishing--History.--New England Hurricane Grace,--1991. Gloucester (Mass.)--Social life and customs.