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In Peril: A Daring Decision, A Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History
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by Skip Strong and Twain Braden
Sales Rank: 764951
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$2.51
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 280 pages
Published by: The Lyons Press; First edition edition November 1, 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1592281052
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1592281053
Book Dimensions:
9.5 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.3 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
Strong and Braden's tale of an imperfect storm, three ships and a daring rescue comes to vivid life in this gem of a book. Strong, captain of an oil tanker carrying ten million gallons of crude, was trying to outrun tropical storm Gordon when he picked up a distress call off the Florida coast in the early hours of November 15, 1994. An oceangoing tug with a cargo barge tethered behind it had lost engine power and was foundering. Strong decided to attempt a rescue, although doing so put his own crew and cargo, not to mention hundreds of miles of Florida coast, at risk of a catastrophic oil spill. Strong also didn't know that the barge's cargo, a brand-new external fuel tank for a space shuttle, was worth nearly $50 million. The successful rescue of all life and property later resulted in a landmark judgment in court when the company that owned Strong's ship claimed, via long-standing maritime laws, the right to a percentage of the value of the rescued goods. Strong's first-person narration of the immediate story is gripping, while still allowing for discursions into topics such as shipping, admiralty law and meteorology. Strong and co-writer Braden don't rush into the high-seas drama, but the complex details involved in the rescue itself are sharp and clear. The court case is anticlimactic, but the authors don't linger on it unnecessarily. This is a great story, well told. Photos.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
"an intriguing, carefully spun true account of the ironic and the improbably¿Meticulously researched and engagingly written"-- Professional Mariner
"In Peril offering illuminating details about merchant marine practices"--The Chicago Tribune
Reader Reviews
This review is from: In Peril: A Daring Decision, a Captain's Resolve, and the Salvage that Made History (Paperback)
I love books like this, any adventure against good old mother nature with a significant amount of danger and big machines tossed in for effect. That is why I thought I would love this book. I did enjoy it and I found that I learned a great deal about everything from the NASA Space Shuttle to oil tanker operations. I also got a good dose of what it is like to be in the merchant marine. The issue I had with the book is that I did not think it lived up to the description on the dust jacket. I thought there would be far more "seconds away from death" type adventure. The book covers the three days period of time when an oil tanker came to the rescue of a tug boat pulling an external fuel tank for the shuttle during a topical storm. Sure it sounds like an odd bunch of vehicles, but that adds to the charm of the story. That sounds like some excitement and to be fair the book did have a good amount, but perfect storm it was not. I just thought that outside of a large monetary loss, the outcome of the rescue had it not worked would have been only property damage to one specialized gas tank. I was just expecting and I guess looking for more excitement. To give the book credit though it was interesting and had exciting parts. It just was not a top tier nail biter type book.
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