Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

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“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Sea is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro’s sinking.”
Ben Mezrich, bestselling writer of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No person could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and state-of-the-art weather forecasting could all of sudden vanish—until now.

Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with members of the family and maritime experts, in addition to the words of the crew members themselves—whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder—journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officers’ anguish and fear as they struggled to carry out Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly more atypical commands, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at The usa’s aging merchant marine fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping—a cut-throat industry plagued by razor-thin profits and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.

A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light on the hardworking women and men who paid the ultimate price in the name of profit.

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