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Into the blizzard, heroism at sea during the Great Blizzard of 1978, Michael J. Tougias

eng

List of author's books for adults: page 251

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non fiction

Into the blizzard

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Michael J. Tougias

True rescue series

heroism at sea during the Great Blizzard of 1978

"In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol rescue boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard rescue boat was in as much trouble as the tanker--both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the Can Do, into the blizzard.... [T]his middle-grade adaptation of an adult nonfiction book chronicles the harrowing journey between Captain Quirk and the Coast Guard as they struggled in the holds of a radical storm. It's an epic tale of heroism and bravery at sea."--Publisher's website

Prologue -- Key vessels and crew members -- Part I. The gathering storm -- The Coast Guard responds -- Frank Quirk and Charlie Bucko -- Danger on the Forty-Four -- Rogue waves and dead engines -- The rescue of the Chester Poling -- A storm like no other -- Swept over with a crash -- Part II. A family's anxious wait -- The sea's first victims -- Time is the enemy -- Heading northeast -- In shoal waters -- Troubles on the Cape George -- Silence -- The anchor -- The breakwater -- Desperation -- Part III. The search -- The Global Hope -- Devastation -- The week after -- Wrecked boat, wrecked lives -- Farewell -- Epilogue