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Title: Until the Sea Shall Free Them by ROBERT FRUMP ISBN: 0-385-50116-1 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What a story! Where's the movie?
Comment: This book has everything! There's a harrowing sea rescue, riveting courtroom drama and some genuine American heroes. In this day of dirty corporate deals, executives taking big payouts while leaving their workers broke and out of work, coverups and questionable reporting, it's SO refreshing to read of men who were brave enought to take on the system and tell the truth. There's Bob Cusick- a hero if there ever was one- a 59-yr-old man, who after being dumped into the sea during one of the worst blizzards in recent times, and fighting his way back to life, risked his livelihood and reputation to tell why the ship went down; Jim McCann, a courageous Navy diver who refused to give up; Dom Calicchio, the Coast Guard board member whose ensured that the truth came out, knowing that his career would be destroyed; and the Philadelphia Enquirer team, who kept the story in the public eye- thanks to these men, the lives of countless American seamen have been saved.(Makes you think-next time you turn on a light or have a hot shower, remember the men and women who risked their lives to bring the coal to your power plant.)...As for the writing style, I was up way past my bedtime, I had to force myself to put down the book and turn off the light. The book is an absolute page turner. Personally, I can't wait for the movie- maybe Harrison Ford in the lead role! This is a story that deserves to be read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truth IS stranger than fiction
Comment: Robert Frump who with Tim Dwyer wrote an award wining series of articles entitled "Death Ships" about the American Merchant Marine and specifically the loss of the MARINE ELECTRIC for the "Philadelphia Inquirer" in 1983 has completed the story in his just published book "Until the Sea Shall Free Them - Life, Death, and Survival in the Merchant Marine."
This book is a must read for anyone interested in marine safety, and should be required reading for every Coast Guard cadet, officer (including the Commandant), inspector, investigator - anyone responsible for the safety of life and property at sea.
While the book is specifically about the loss of the MARINE ELECTRIC off the Virginia Capes in February 1983 and the survival of just three crewmembers it is more importantly the story of how 'the system' permitted an obviously unseaworthy vessel to go to sea and take the lives of 31 merchant mariners, including one young cadet who was just learning his way around the engine room.
But there are heroes in this story - including the author himself who persevered to write this book. Chief mate Bob Cusick who decide that the truth would set him free and told it. And Coast Guard Captain Dom Calicchio who as a member of the Marine Board was determined to discover what really happened and why. And Navy rescue swimmers Jim McCann who when beyond exhaustion went back and back into turbulent seas to rescue or recover the ill-fated crewmembers. (As a result of this casualty Congress required the Coast Guard to establish its own rescue swimmer program, and required immersion suits (called exposure suits in the original legislation) on all vessels operating on cold waters regardless of whether they had covered lifeboats.
The Marine Board's report on the loss of the MARINE ELECTRIC is the finest casualty report I have every read. But the book gives a behind the scenes look at what was going through the minds of the players.
Enough said. Read the book.
Rating: 1
Summary: Hack writing
Comment: Frump makes a feeble attempt to marry "Erin Brokovitch" to "A Perfect Storm" - the result is a prosaic mess.
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Title: Fatal Depth: Deep Sea Diving, China Fever, and the Wreck of the Andrea Doria by Joe Haberstroh ISBN: 1585744573 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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