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Fatal forecast, [an incredible true tale of disaster and survival at sea], Michael J. Tougias

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Fatal forecast

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Michael J. Tougias

[an incredible true tale of disaster and survival at sea]

A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea. One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather--but a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast, a maelstrom the National Weather Sevice did not accurately locate until the boats were already in its grip. Battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force winds, the crews struggled heroically, but the storm crippled one boat and overturned the other, trapping its crew inside. One man managed to crawl inside a tiny inflatable life raft and spent more than fifty terrifying hours adrift on the stormy open sea. That day, brave men and women from the Coast Guard and a crew of a nearby fishing boat imperiled their own lives in order to save the lives of others.--From the publisher description