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Lost At Sea

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On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two cutting-edge crabbing vessels, docked of their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to start out a grueling three-month season fishing within the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine’s Day, the overturned hull of the Americus used to be found drifting in calm seas, without a record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. In spite of the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. Fourteen men were lost. And the tragedy would mark the worst disaster within the history of U.S. commercial fishing.
With painstaking research and spellbinding prose, acclaimed journalist Patrick Dillon brings to life the men who were lost, the dangers that commercial fishermen face, the haunting memories of the families left at the back of…and reconstructs the serious investigation that ensued, which for the first time exposed the dangers of an industry that would never again be the similar.

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