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The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Perfect Storm - A True Story of Man Against the Sea (Paperback, New Ed)
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The worst storm in history seem from the wheelhouse of a doomed
fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell
from a perspective that offers no escape. The 'perfect storm' is a
once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from
the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island -
Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the
Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. This is the story of that storm, told
through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the
maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their
return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. It is the story
of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man
and Nature, but here Nature is an awesome and capricious power that
transforms the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of
water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil
tanker in two, let alone the 72ft swordfishing boat Andrea Gail
with her crew of eight. A typical Hurricane encompasses a million
cubic miles of atmosphere and can contain enough energy to, in
theory, meet the electric power needs of the UK for a decade.
Except that a hurricane will not be controlled. In spare, lyrical
prose 'The Perfect Storm' describes what happened when the Andrea
Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm.
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