Overboard! : A True Blue-Water Odyssey of Disaster and Survival

by Michael J. Tougias

Edition:

1st

ISBN13:

ISBN10:

1439145741

Format:

Hardcover

Pub. Date:

3/16/2010

Publisher(s):

Scribner

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The author of "Fatal Forecast" and "Finest Hours" delivers this shocking, true tale of a disaster at sea.

Prologue	p. ix

Preparations and a New Crew	p. 3
Tom and Loch	p. 11
A Warning	p. 15
The Storm's First Jab	p. 20
The At Ease	p. 24
Off the Edge of a Cliff	p. 30
"Set Off Your EPIRB!"	p. 37
A Rescue Swimmer's Nightmare	p. 43

Through the Gulf Stream	p. 53
Knockdown!	p. 58
The Life Raft	p. 63
Overboard!	p. 68
Dawn	p. 74
The Coast Guard	p. 79
Specks in an Endless Ocean	p. 84
Words from the Heavens	p. 88
"No Persons on Board"	p. 93
Alone	p. 99
Running Out of Time	p. 104
"I've Got to Bring Him Home"	p. 108
The Seay	p. 112
Make Some Luck	p. 118
The Families	p. 123

The Cable	p. 131
An Armful of Torque	p. 138
Darkening Skies and Falling Spirits	p. 144
Never Talk to the Ocean	p. 149
Hallucinations	p. 155
Strange Lights	p. 160
The Weakening Strobe	p. 165
One Last Shout	p. 172
The Cargo Net	p. 177
"This is real, this is real"	p. 184
The Power of Little Steps	p. 190
Good-byes	p. 196
Author's Note and Acknowledgments	p. 203
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