A Speck in the Sea
A Speck in the Sea

Author: John Aldridge

Publisher: Hachette Books

Published: 2017-05-23

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1602863296

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The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read." I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me. You can't get more alone than that. You can't be more lost. I've got too many people who love me. There's no way I'm dying like this. In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented search effort that culminated in a rare and exhilarating success. A tale of survival, perseverance, and community, A Speck in the Sea tells of one man's struggle to survive as friends and strangers work to bring him home. Aldridge's wrenching first-person account intertwines with the narrative of the massive, constantly evolving rescue operation designed to save him.

438 Days
438 Days

Author: Jonathan Franklin

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-11-17

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1501116290

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The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

The Lost Boys of Montauk
The Lost Boys of Montauk

Author: Amanda M. Fairbanks

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-05-17

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1982103248

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"[A] riveting account of a fishing boat and its four young crewman lost at sea in 1984 off the coast of Montauk in eastern Long Island--a "fishing town with a drinking problem," as the locals have it--and the stunning repercussions of that loss for the families and friends of the four missing men and, indeed, the entire storied summer community of the Hamptons"--

The Deep Range
The Deep Range

Author: Arthur C. Clarke

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 0795325096

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A man discovers the planet’s destiny in the ocean’s depths in this near-future novel by one of the twentieth century’s greatest science fiction authors. In the very near future, humanity has fully harnessed the sea’s immense potential, employing advanced sonar technology to control and harvest untold resources for human consumption. It is a world where gigantic whale herds are tended by submariners and vast plankton farms stave off the threat of hunger. Former space engineer Walter Franklin has been assigned to a submarine patrol. Initially indifferent to his new station, if not bored by his daily routines, Walter soon becomes fascinated by the sea’s mysteries. The more his explorations deepen, the more he comes to understand man’s true place in nature—and the unique role he will soon play in humanity’s future. A lasting testament to Arthur C. Clarke’s prescient and powerful imagination, The Deep Range is a classic work of science fiction that remains deeply relevant to our times.

A SPECK ON THE SEA
A SPECK ON THE SEA

Author: William Longyard

Publisher: International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press

Published: 2004-08-17

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780071440295

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"A gripping compendium of noteworthy small-boat voyages made over the centuries." --John Harland, author of Seamanship in the Age of Sail A Speck on the Sea chronicles the greatest ocean voyages attempted in the littlest boats. These feats include: Diego Mendez's voyage to rescue Columbus William Okeley's escape from slavery in a folding rowboat Ernest Shackleton's death-cheating journeys And more

Passage to Juneau
Passage to Juneau

Author: Jonathan Raban

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-06-22

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0307797260

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The bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land takes us along the Inside Passage, 1,000 miles of often treacherous water, which he navigates solo in a 35-foot sailboat, offering captivating discourses on art, philosophy, and navigation and an unsparing narrative of personal loss. "A work of great beauty and inexhaustible fervor." —The Washington Post Book World With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encyclopedic learning that he brought to his National Book Award-winning Bad Land, Jonathan Raban conducts readers along the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau. But Passage to Juneau also traverses a gulf of centuries and cultures: the immeasurable divide between the Northwest's Indians and its first European explorers—between its embattled fishermen and loggers and its pampered new class.

Given to the Sea
Given to the Sea

Author: Mindy McGinnis

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0399544623

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Kings and queens rise and fall, loyalties collide, and romance blooms in a world where the sea is rising--and cannot be escaped. The first of an expansive fantasy duology from an up-and-coming YA author.

Rescue Ferrets at Sea
Rescue Ferrets at Sea

Author: Richard Bach

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9780743227506

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This second Ferret Chronicle is the story of Bethany Ferret, a kit from humble beginnings who joined the Ferret Rescue Service and rose to command the swift rescue-boat, "Resolute."

Not Without Hope
Not Without Hope

Author: Nick Schuyler

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-12-28

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0061993980

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On February 28, 2009, Nick Schuyler went on a deep-sea fishing trip with three friends: NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith, and Will Bleakley, former University of South Florida football player and Nick's best friend. What was supposed to be a day of fun and relaxation aboard Cooper's twenty-one-foot vessel turned nightmarish in the Gulf of Mexico, seventy miles west of Tampa, Florida, when a tragic mistake caused their boat to capsize. With no food or water, no emergency beacon to alert authorities, the four athletes clung to the overturned hull through the night—battling hypothermia, hallucinations, hunger, dehydration, and huge pounding waves, as they prayed, spoke of their loved ones, and shared what they would have done differently with their lives. In the end, only one would reach dry land alive. Much more than a riveting true account of survival, Not Without Hope is Nick Schuyler's inspiring story of courage, resolve, and friendship.

Girl. Boy. Sea
Girl. Boy. Sea

Author: Chris Vick

Publisher: Zephyr

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781789541380

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Storm, shipwreck, survival. This novel delves deep into the might and majesty of the unpredictable ocean, the strength of an unlikely friendship between a British boy and a Berber girl and their will to survive against all the odds.