boating accidents

Nick Schuyler recounts the harrowing forty-three hours he spent stranded on an overturned boat with three friends during brutal storms in the Gulf of Mexico in early March 2009.

Tim Wallace, devastated after his wife's death, which the police suspect he is responsible for, finds himself once again at the center of a murder investigation when a drunken stranger gives Tim proof of another murder, leading the cops to believe Tim is hiding a dirty secret.

Presents a true story that retraces the journey of three sailors, their boats, and a devastating hurricane that hit the Caribbean in November of 1999.

While recovering from mercury poisoning, Katelynn witnesses the sinking of a local tour boat outside her family's lakeside home, and when the boat's captain seeks out Katelynn to help her better understand what happened and cope with the guilt and grief, the two form a close bond which will change their lives forever.

In the middle of the Blizzard of 1978, an oil tanker was in trouble in the Salem Sound shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard immediately dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in as much trouble as the tanker. The captain of the pilot boat, the Can Do, was monitoring radio transmissions and when the Coast Guard boat reported problems the Can Do responded with her crew of four and became part of a true account of bravery and death at sea.

in 1993 Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two young children, Ben and Annie, set out to live their dream and sail around the world. Then, one night almost three years into their journey, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course by ten degrees and sliced the sailboat in half. After forty-four hours clinging to an overturned dinghy in icy seawater, her back broken and her skull fractured, Judith was the only one of her family to survive. Her tale of shattering loss and incredible courage made headlines around the world.

When a freak storm overturns their boat and strands Garrett and his best friend, Henry, on a creepy island, Garrett learns something about Henry that he never suspected--he has been dead for months.

Presents true accounts of five ocean rescues. Features ocean rescue facts, a glossary of terms, and sources of more information.