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Sto caricando le informazioni... Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro (2018)di George Michelsen Foy
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Starting in 2018, several authors published works on the tragic sinking of the SS El Faro, a large container/roll-on/roll off (CON-RO) ship that sank near the eye of Hurrican Joaquin on 1 October 2015. The passage of time between books and event in this case was due to the appearance of the long-awaited investigations by the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Transportation Safety Board on the ship's loss. These investigations were greatly aided by the discovery and recovery of El Faro's voyage data recorder (VDR), whose digital memory included the last 29 hours of crew conversations on the ship's bridge. Once the transcript of that recording became available, it was easy to see that here was the backbone of a riveting and horrific tale. In "Run the Storm", author George Foy provides his ake on the El Faro story. Foy is a writer with seagoing experience on sailing yachts, fishing boats, and coastal merchant ships in his native Great Britain. Foy puts that experience to good use in preparing this work. Published by Scribner in 2018, "Run the Storm" contains 251 pages arranged in seven parts. Foy wastes no time in showing what his book's focus would be--he begins with photographs of the 28 American mariners (including two women) and five Polish contractors who perished in the disaster. The book's parts are laid out roughly in chronological order, although Foy sometimes leaps ahead or jumps sideways in his explanations of various topics. The tempo of the book changes as the story m oves along. This is partly a function of the nature of a story of which the reader already knows the ending, but it is also a function of the reader thirsting to know how these men and women react to an ever-worsening situation. Foy is able to flesh out only those watchstanders on the bridge thanks to the VDR transcript. Other crew are given voice only by the speculation provided by the one-sided telephone conversations in the transcript or by interviews with families and friends. El Faro's owners and operators provided the author with no additional information beyond that of corporate news releases and data provided to the two investigative bodies. The author naturally spends much time on El Faro's skipper--Michael Davidson--as it is his actions and inactions that ultimately lead to the ship's loss. However, Davidson's widow declined to speak with Foy, thus leaving only her testimony from the investigations to give her voice about her husband. What makes Foy's telling of this tale is the additional information he provides to supplemtn the core facts of the story. The author does this through short explanations (usually a paragraph or two) of how things work, such as the development of a hurricane, the operation of a marine steam turbine, or even how a person drowns in hurricane-force seas. All of these explanations ultimately place the reader on board the El Faro around 0730 on 1 October 2015, alongside a crew meeting once of the worst fates possible for a sailor. From a writing perspective, "Run the Storm" has its problems. Foy footnotes nothing, although he provides a page-long explanation of his sources. Where a topic needs further explanation, Foy provides a brief footnot. And, of course, with an event such as El Faro's sinking, there is room for much speculation. Compared to Rachel Slade's contemporary "Into the Raging Sea", Foy's work is a shallower dive that relies more on the author's Britsh coastal shipping background than Slade's more thorough research into American maritime policy and corporate culture. So the theory Foy points his reader at--precious lives lost due to a negligent and greedy shipping company, a ship's captain obsessed with a career coming to a possible premature end, and a storm that defied accurate forecasting --lacks the punch of Slade's more detailed work. "Run the Storm" is nonetheless a stirring read, one worthy of an audience interested in human nature and the maritime industry. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In the best-selling tradition of A Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, a harrowing account of the incredible true story of the recent shocking disappearance of El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin and sank suddenly in the Bermuda Triangle in 2015--taking with it 33 lives. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Foy explains how things work, things that contributed to the sinking of SS El Faro. I never really understood the making of a hurricane and how it could go from an insignificant low far away to a category 4 shipwrecker. Now I do. Nor did I understand the inner workings of a merchant marine vessel - it's loading and engine functions. Now I do. Nor did I really understand the corporate policies that make delivering a cargo more important than the lives of the crew.
Investigations into sinkings need to have more teeth. They need to be able to force changes rather than simply recommend changes. ( )