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    Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
    Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
    Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro
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    Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro

    Written by George Michelsen Foy

    Narrated by L. J. Ganser

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    In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.

    On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a massive American cargo ship disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin, a category 4 storm. The ship, its hundreds of shipping containers, and its entire crew plummeted to the bottom of the ocean, three miles down. It was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II. The massive ship had a seasoned crew, state-of-the-art navigation equipment, and advance warning of the storm. It seemed incomprehensible that such a ship could sink so suddenly. How, in this day and age, could something like this happen?

    Relying on Coast Guard inquest hearings, as well as on numerous interviews, George Michelsen Foy brings us “the most insightful exploration of this unthinkable disaster” (Outside), a story that lasts only a few days, but which grows almost intolerably suspenseful as deep-rooted flaws leading to the disaster inexorably link together and worsen. We see captain, engineers, and crew fight for their lives, and hear their actual words (as recorded on the ship’s black box) while the hurricane relentlessly tightens its noose around the ship. We watch, minute by minute, all that is happening on board—the ship’s mysterious tilt to one side, worried calls to the engine room, ship-to-shore reports, the courage of the men and women as they fight to survive, and the berserk ocean’s savage consumption of the massive hull. And through it all, the pain and ultimate resilience of the families of El Faro’s crew. Now with a new afterword, this “tour de force of nautical expertise” (Ocean Navigator) is a masterwork of stunning power.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 1, 2018
    ISBN9781508259312
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    George Michelsen Foy

    George Michelsen Foy is the author of Run the Storm, Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human and Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence, as well as twelve critically acclaimed novels. He was a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, Harper's, The New York Times, and Men's Journal, among others. A former officer on British coastal freighters, he teaches creative writing at NYU, holds a US Coast Guard coastal captain’s license, and divides his time between Cape Cod and New York.

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    • 3/5
      If you are only going to read (or listen) to one book on El Faro I would suggest "Into the Raging Sea" by Rachel Slade, also on Scribd. It gives more detail on the background, events, and much more on the investigation into the sinking. This author is good at describing the harrowing storm and sinking, but is very hesistant to discuss who is at fault for the sinking including the Captain, and perhaps even more so, the shipping company. I also resented that the author stated that families refused to settle with the shipping company because they wanted more money. If you read Slade's book, it is clear they refused to settle because they wanted the company held accountable for their part in the deaths of their family members.

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