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Lost at sea, an American tragedy, Patrick Dillon

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Lost at sea, an American tragedy, Patrick Dillon

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lost at sea

Responsibility statement

Patrick Dillon

Sub title

an American tragedy

Summary

The story of the worst disaster in U.S. commercial fishing history, the loss of two crabbing vessels in the Bering Sea in 1983

Table Of Contents

On the morning of February 3, 1983, the Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, idled at the dock in their home port of Anacortes, Washington. On deck, the fourteen crewmen -- fathers, sons, brothers and friends who'd known one another all their lives -- prepared for the ten-day trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. From this rough-and-tumble seaport the men would begin a grueling three-month season in one of the nation's most profitable and deadliest occupations -- fishing for crab in the notorious Bering Sea. Standing on the Anacortes dock that morning, the families and friends of the crew knew that in the wake of the previous year's multimillion-dollar losses, the pressure for this voyage was unusually intense

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