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Fatal Forecast: An Incredible True Tale of Disaster and Survival at Sea

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Now in paperback, a true story as spellbinding and harrowing as The Perfect Storm, “marvel- ous and terrifying” (Los Angeles Times)—published to herald the arrival of Tougias’s new hardcover, The Finest Hours.

On the morning of November 21, 1980, two small boats set out for Georges Bank, a lucrative but perilous lobster fishing ground off the coast of Cape Cod. The National Weather Service had forecast typical fall weather, and the young, rugged crewmen aboard the Sea Fever and the Fair Wind had no reason to expect that this commute would be any different from the dozens they’d made earlier within the season. But the one weather buoy within the area was once malfunctioning, and the National Weather Service had failed to reveal this crucial detail. And because the two small boats headed out to sea, a colossal storm was once brewing to the southeast, a furious maelstrom that would batter the boats with sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds. A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea, this can be a vivid moment-by-moment account of seventy-two hours within the lives of eight young fishermen. Most amazing is the story of Ernie Hazzard, who spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift at the stormy open sea.

Gripping and heart-pounding, Fatal Forecast is an unfor- gettable true story in regards to the collision of two spectacular forces: the brutality of nature and the human will to live to tell the tale.

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