Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro Audiobook (Free)

“A Perfect Storm for a new generation, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Ocean is a masterful page-turning account of the El Faro’s sinking.”

-Ben Mezrich, bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled in to the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No one could fathom what sort of vessel built with about Into the Raging Ocean: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, as well as the Sinking from the Un Faro satellite communications, a sophisticated navigation system, and cutting-edge climate forecasting could abruptly vanish-until now.

Relying on a huge selection of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, aswell as the words of the crew associates themselves-whose conversations were captured from the ship’s data recorder-journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officials’ anguish and dread as they struggled to handle Captain Michael Davidson’s increasingly bizarre instructions, which, they knew, would steer them straight into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America’s maturing merchant sea fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about contemporary shipping-a cut-throat market plagued by razor-thin earnings and a lot more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.

A richly reported accounts of one tragedy, In to the Raging Sea takes us in to the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light for the hardworking men and women who paid the best price in the name of revenue.