In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker "Global Hope"
floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts
coast. The Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls and immediately
dispatched a patrol boat. Within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was
in as much trouble as the tanker, having lost its radar, depth
finder, and engine power in horrendous seas. Pilot boat Captain
Frank Quirk was monitoring the Coast Guard's efforts by radio, and
when he heard that the patrol boat was in jeopardy, he decided to
act. Gathering his crew of four, he readied his forty-nine-foot
steel boat, the "Can Do, " and entered the maelstrom of the
blizzard.
Using dozens of interview and audiotapes that recorded every word
exchanged between Quirk and the Coast Guard, Tougias has written a
devastating, true account of bravery and death at sea.
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