Five Against the Sea

by Arias, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781892216410
• ISBN10: 1892216418
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-01
• Publisher: Bristol Fashion Pub Co

Summary

It was January 19, 1988. The waters were calm and the skies cloudless as five fishermen set off on a week-long trip off the Costa Rican coast. Five days later, their twenty-nine-foot wooden craft was foundering against thirty-foot waves as a dreaded north wind -- El Norte -- struck with full force. Set adrift in a badly leaking vessel, they faced the perils of more storms, shark attacks, near-madness, a mutiny, and bouts of starvation and thirst. Continuously bailing, the five men endured a record 142 days lost at sea -- until they were rescued 4,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

Table of Contents

Departures	15	(16)
A Great Catch	31	(14)
El Norte	45	(12)
The Big Hole	57	(16)
Missing	73	(14)
Last Chance	87	(14)
Separate Quarters	101	(14)
Pandora	115	(10)
The Island	125	(18)
Sharks	143	(16)
The Whale	159	(16)
The Net	175	(8)
May 10	183	(12)
Last Entry	195	(14)
Thirst	209	(10)
Dreams	219	(8)
Rain	227	(10)
Rescue	237	(14)
Home	251	(10)
Afterword	261