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 41 Part5 Five

    Duration: 06min
  • RunTheStorm 42 Part5 Six

    Duration: 10min
  • RunTheStorm 43 Part5 Seven

    Duration: 07min
  • RunTheStorm 44 Part5 Eight

    Duration: 05min
  • RunTheStorm 45 Part5 Nine

    Duration: 06min
  • RunTheStorm 46 Part5 Ten

    Duration: 08min
  • RunTheStorm 47 Part5 Eleven

    Duration: 03min
  • RunTheStorm 48 Part5 Twelve

    Duration: 04min
  • RunTheStorm 49 Part5 Thirteen

    Duration: 04min
  • RunTheStorm 50 Part6 One

    Duration: 04min
  • RunTheStorm 51 Part6 Two

    Duration: 12min
  • RunTheStorm 52 Part6 Three

    Duration: 07min
  • RunTheStorm 53 Part6 Four

    Duration: 04min
  • RunTheStorm 54 Part6 Five

    Duration: 07min
  • RunTheStorm 55 Part6 Six

    Duration: 11min
  • RunTheStorm 56 Part6 Seven

    Duration: 03min
  • RunTheStorm 57 Part6 Eight

    Duration: 13min
  • RunTheStorm 58 Part7 One

    Duration: 15min
  • RunTheStorm 59 Part7 Two

    Duration: 54s
  • RunTheStorm 60 Part7 Three

    Duration: 05min
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