Top products from r/HeavySeas
We found 8 product mentions on r/HeavySeas. We ranked the 8 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The Lighthouse Stevensons
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
HARPER PERENNIAL
3. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
4. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
W W Norton Company
5. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Anchor
6. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue
Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
That's amazing. I found the book The Lighthouse Stevensons at an overstock giveaway, and it's been gathering dust on my shelves for almost a year now. This thread is inspiring me to give it a second look.
For context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stevenson_(civil_engineer)
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This really hits close to home. I lost a friend and two acquaintances on the El Faro. I've also had a family member serve on her back in the '90s. And I sailed on the ship that took over her run in the Caribbean. It's amazing how few people have even heard of this event.
There's a book coming out soon that you can pre-order on Amazon all about the disaster.
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
I also have pretty intimate knowledge of the ship and the plant if anyone has some questions. I might be able to answer.
What I know came from this book, which goes into a lot more detail.
If folks don't know about it:
https://www.amazon.com/1-Dead-Attic-After-Katrina/dp/1501125370
Here you go:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393337014/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_JFfSAb07P7J0J
Check out a book called The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean, by Susan Casey. She goes into quite a bit of detail about what happened to the München.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767928857/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_c_api_i_yoswCbZQ8GKZM
They used bunker oil it's an extremely dense oil. You should read Halsey's Typhoon it's incredible what those men went through. President Gerald Ford was almost washed overboard during it, he was saved by catching the lip of the flight deck with the tips of his toes.
As for your recurring nightmare, Descent into Darkness is a memoir about a US Navy salvage diver in Pearl Harbor. They found men who had survived for weeks in air pockets but died before they could be rescued... they found the dates scratched into the bulkhead. I personally would take the sudden sinking rather than being trapped and hearing salvage divers constantly passing you for weeks before finally dying alone in the cold darkness.