"Larger print"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-514).
Contents:
The clock is ticking -- Blount Island -- Tropical Storm Joaquin -- Third Mate Jeremie Riehm -- A hurricane is not a point on a map -- Second Mate Danielle Randolph -- Collision course -- Hull number 670 -- Afternoon -- Captain Michael Davidson -- Question authority? -- The Jones Act -- Evening -- Night -- Necesitamos la mercancía -- Dawn -- The raging sea -- We're gonna make it -- We've lost communication -- Search and rescue -- Flight to Jacksonville -- Ships don't just disappear -- Profit and loss -- The truth is out there -- How to sink a ship -- Admiral Greene clears the air -- Portrait of incompetence -- Mission number two -- The proof is in the pudding -- Voices -- Twenty-four minutes -- Spirits.
Summary:
Recounts the sinking of El Faro, a container ship that was swallowed by Hurricane Joaquin in the Bermuda Triangle, examining America's merchant marine fleet and revealing the truth about modern shipping.
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