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Zusatztext “Tougias and Campbell’s well researched and very personal effort details the doubts and questions as the ship gets underway! takes you aboard as the exhausted crew struggled to keep it afloat! then into the raging sea as the soggy survivors feverishly clambered into the bouncing rafts! and onto the tossing aircraft as the Coast Guard hoisted the sailors from the maelstrom below.” Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Tougias is the author of a number of books, including Rescue of the Bounty : Disaster and Survival in Superstorm Sandy ; Overboard! ; The Finest Hours (with Casey Sherman), the basis of the major motion picture released in 2016; Fatal Forecast ; and Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do. He is a sought-after lecturer who gives more than seventy presentations each year. He lives in Massachusetts. Douglas A. Campbell spent three decades in daily journalism, twenty-five of those years as a staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer , where two of his stories were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Campbell has sailed his own boats since 1979 and has twice competed in the biannual Bermuda One-Two race. Klappentext From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours , the “thrilling and perfectly paced” ( Booklist ) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty —the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty —which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Petersburg, Florida. Walbridge knew that a hurricane was forecast, yet he was determined to sail. The captain told the crew that anyone could leave the ship before it sailed. No one took the captain up on his offer. Four days into the voyage, Superstorm Sandy made an almost direct hit on the ship. A few hours later, the ship suddenly overturned ninety miles off the North Carolina coast in the “Graveyard of the Atlantic,” sending the crew tumbling into an ocean filled with towering thirty-foot waves. The coast guard then launched one of the most complex and massive rescues in its history. In the uproar heard across American media in the days following, a single question persisted: Why did the captain decide to sail? Through hundreds of hours of interviews with the crew members and the coast guard, Michael J. Tougias and Douglas A. Campbell create an in-depth portrait of the enigmatic Captain Walbridge, his motivations, and what truly occurred aboard Bounty during those terrifying days at sea. “A white-knuckled, tragic adventure” ( Richmond Times-Dispatch ), Rescue of the Bounty is an unforgettable tale about the brutality of nature and the human will to survive.Rescue of the Bounty CHAPTER ONE THE SPEECH The autumn afternoon was perfect, untroubled on the New London, Connecticut, waterfront. The rippled river water sparkled; the blue sky was washed clean as fresh laundry. The late-October sun came low behind the woman’s right shoulder, casting sharp, long shadows before her. For twenty years Beth Robinson had been part of the engrossing world of tall ships and she still thought, This is why we go to sea, days like this. She walked onto the City Pier, where, ahead of her, a crew of sailors hustled to their assignments on deck below the three towering masts of the historic square-rigger Bounty. Robinson, a relief skipper on a nearby schooner, knew the ship, a 180-foot, fifty-year-old wooden ship—an expanded replica of the original 1784 ship HMS Bounty. She made a casual inspection, passing the soaring sixty-foot bowsprit, thrust upward toward shore, before reaching the freshly painted black hull. She knew Bounty’s...
