new england

One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather but, unknown to the fishermen, a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast. Soon the boats were battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds. The crews struggled heroically, but the storm crippled one boat and overturned the other, trapping its crew inside. One man managed to crawl inside a tiny inflatable life raft and spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift on the stormy open sea.

The Andrea Gail put to sea to do what she always did---search for the best spot to fish. Unfortunately, nature chose the same time frame to send two storm systems which collided in the same place as the boat. The six-man crew on the Andrea Gail are now well known, thanks to the movie. None of them, or their boat, survived the storm. This book is filled with facts about their lives and ordeal and contains no made-up dialogue. The author interviewed men who had survived storms at sea to get a feeling of what actually happens to a crew when there is a dangerous storm.

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