Run The Storm: A Savage Hurricane, A Brave Crew, And The Wreck Of The Ss El Faro

  • Author: George Michelsen Foy
  • Narrator: L.J. Ganser
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Duration: 9:17:37
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Synopsis

In the bestselling tradition of The Perfect Storm and The Finest Hours, “an exquisitely written and dramatic book…a literary page-turner” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers)—the 2015 mysterious disappearance of the SS El Faro, a gigantic American cargo ship that sank in the Bermuda Triangle, taking with it thirty-three lives.

On October 1, 2015, the SS El Faro, a massive American cargo ship disappeared in Hurricane Joaquin, a category 4 storm. The ship, its hundreds of shipping containers, and its entire crew plummeted to the bottom of the ocean, three miles down. It was the greatest seagoing US merchant marine shipping disaster since World War II. The massive ship had a seasoned crew, state-of-the-art navigation equipment, and advance warning of the storm. It seemed incomprehensible that such a ship could sink so suddenly. How, in this day and age, could something like this happen?

Relying on Coast Guard inquest hearings, as well as on numerous interviews, George Michelsen Foy brings us “the most insightful exploration of this unthinkable disaster” (Outside), a story that lasts only a few days, but which grows almost intolerably suspenseful as deep-rooted flaws leading to the disaster inexorably link together and worsen. We see captain, engineers, and crew fight for their lives, and hear their actual words (as recorded on the ship’s black box) while the hurricane relentlessly tightens its noose around the ship. We watch, minute by minute, all that is happening on board—the ship’s mysterious tilt to one side, worried calls to the engine room, ship-to-shore reports, the courage of the men and women as they fight to survive, and the berserk ocean’s savage consumption of the massive hull. And through it all, the pain and ultimate resilience of the families of El Faro’s crew. Now with a new afterword, this “tour de force of nautical expertise” (Ocean Navigator) is a masterwork of stunning power.

Chapters

  • RunTheStorm 21 Part3 Four

    Duration: 07min
  • RunTheStorm 22 Part3 Five

    Duration: 10min
  • RunTheStorm 23 Part3 Six

    Duration: 15min
  • RunTheStorm 24 Part3 Seven

    Duration: 09min
  • RunTheStorm 25 Part3 Eight

    Duration: 10min
  • RunTheStorm 26 Part4 One

    Duration: 17min
  • RunTheStorm 27 Part4 Two

    Duration: 09min
  • RunTheStorm 28 Part4 Three

    Duration: 15min
  • RunTheStorm 29 Part4 Four

    Duration: 18min
  • RunTheStorm 30 Part4 Five

    Duration: 05min
  • RunTheStorm 31 Part4 Six

    Duration: 07min
  • RunTheStorm 32 Part4 Seven

    Duration: 12min
  • RunTheStorm 33 Part4 Eight

    Duration: 17min
  • RunTheStorm 34 Part4 Nine

    Duration: 15min
  • RunTheStorm 35 Part4 Ten

    Duration: 15min
  • RunTheStorm 36 Part4 Eleven

    Duration: 08min
  • RunTheStorm 37 Part5 One

    Duration: 14min
  • RunTheStorm 38 Part5 Two

    Duration: 06min
  • RunTheStorm 39 Part5 Three

    Duration: 19min
  • RunTheStorm 40 Part5 Four

    Duration: 06min
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