Download or read book A Shipwreck Survivor s Tale written by Donald G. Vedeler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When retired U.S. Army chaplain Greg Sponney left for a three-month sailing and hiking adventure cruise, he never could have imagined that he would one day be shipwrecked and stranded on a small, rocky, uninhabited island in the northern Pacific Ocean. This is his story, in the form of 64 letters to his seven grandchildren, in which he describes his survival adventure. He also seeks to share with them what he believes is important in lifehoping that somehow, someday his grandchildren will have the chance to read them. Torn between despair that he will never be rescued, and hope that he will, he and his two fellow-survivors, a retired carpenter and a retired nurse, make the best of a desperate situation.
Download or read book Shipwreck written by Tim O'Shei and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes how sailor Debbie Kiley survived a shipwreck and several days adrift in the Atlantic Ocean"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Survivor s Tale written by Debra Day Glabeau and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is a study of the memoirs of seventeen shipwreck survivors and examines how their influence became so prevalent in the imaginations of their contemporaries from the founding of Virgina to the whaling trade days. Includes electrostatic copies of the texts of the narrarative studied.
Download or read book Shipwrecked written by Dennis Hale and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Last Man Off written by Matt Lewis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A sinister version of The Perfect Storm. Thrilling.”—Sunday Times (UK) For readers of The Perfect Storm, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, and Into the Wild There’s nothing that armchair adventure lovers relish more than a gripping true story of disaster and heroism, and Last Man Off delivers all that against a breathtaking backdrop of icebergs and killer whales. On June 6, 1998, twenty-three-year-old Matt Lewis had just started his dream job as a scientific observer aboard a deep-sea fishing boat in the waters off Antarctica. As the crew haul in the line for the day, a storm begins to brew. When the captain vanishes and they are forced to abandon ship, Lewis leads the escape onto three life rafts, where the battle for survival begins.
Download or read book Surviving Savannah written by Patti Callahan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An atmospheric, compelling story of survival, tragedy, the enduring power of myth and memory, and the moments that change one's life." --Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds "[An] enthralling and emotional tale...A story about strength and fate."--Woman's World “An epic novel that explores the metal of human spirit in crisis. It is an expertly told, fascinating story that runs fathoms deep on multiple levels.”—New York Journal of Books It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the steamship Pulaski, she's shocked. The ship sank after a boiler explosion in 1838, and the wreckage was just discovered, 180 years later. Everly can't resist the opportunity to try to solve some of the mysteries and myths surrounding the devastating night of its sinking. Everly's research leads her to the astounding history of a family of eleven who boarded the Pulaski together, and the extraordinary stories of two women from this family: a known survivor, Augusta Longstreet, and her niece, Lilly Forsyth, who was never found, along with her child. These aristocratic women were part of Savannah's society, but when the ship exploded, each was faced with difficult and heartbreaking decisions. This is a moving and powerful exploration of what women will do to endure in the face of tragedy, the role fate plays, and the myriad ways we survive the surviving.
Download or read book Skeletons on the Zahara written by Dean King and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2004-02-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.
Download or read book Castaways and Crusoes written by Horace Kephart and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
Download or read book Island of the Lost written by Joan Druett and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 1864, five seamen from the wrecked schooner Grafton are stranded on an isolated speck of land some 300 miles south of New Zealand. Battling ferocious winds, relentless freezing rain and an impenetrable coastal forest, their chances of survival are slim. But under the leadership of Captain Thomas Musgrave, they miraculously cling to life for nearly two years before building a vessel and setting off on one of the most courageous sea voyages ever. Meanwhile, in May 1864, on the same island but twenty miles of impassable cliffs and chasms away, another ship is wrecked and nineteen men struggle ashore. This crew, however, succumbs to utter anarchy and only three remain to be rescued a year later. Using the survivors' journals, Joan Druett tells a gripping tale about leadership, endurance, and the fine line between order and chaos. 'Those yearning for a classic man vs. nature, triumph-over-terrible-odds story, get ready to set sail.' Paste, US 'Swashbuckling maritime history.' Kirkus Reviews 'One of the finest survival stories I've read.' Seattle Times
Download or read book Nickaleer Shipwreck Survivors written by Susan Grohmann and published by Cover-To-Cover Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two groups of Englishmen are shipwrecked and begin a difficult journey to St. Augustine.
Download or read book Untamed Seas written by Deborah Scaling Kiley and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was supposed to be an easy cruise turned into a nightmare for Deborah Scaling and her four friends, as a seventy knot gale capsized and destroyed their yacht, leaving them adrift in a rubber dingy for five days. After fighting off fear, hypothermia, delirium and sharks, only Scaling and one other survived.
Download or read book Deep Blue written by Nate Hardcastle and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep Blue is a book about things that go wrong at sea (and under the sea), and what happens when they do. It features the best writing from the literature of shipwrecks, nautical survival, and cannibalism as well as tales of submarine adventure including an excerpt from Peter Maas’s The Terrible Hours. In addition to such authors as Neil Hanson and Gary Kinder, Deep Blue includes classic writers like Melville, Conrad, and Crane, perennials such as Patrick O’Brian and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and far-flung, little-known surprises, from free divers in trouble to arctic explorers fatally marooned in the marshes of Siberia.
Download or read book Sole Survivor written by Dennis Hale and published by Lakeshore Charters & Marine Explorations, Incorporated. This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwreck Survivor Search written by AQEEL AHMED and published by AQEEL AHMED. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the huge, beautiful ocean, there is a beautiful story of kindness and bravery. Barbie, who is kind and brave, is in charge of the Rescue Radiance, a machine made of steel, technology, and hope. She does this with resolve and hope. Her job is easy but important: to search the vast oceans for survivors of shipwrecks and help them when they need it the most. This story is broken up into twelve interesting parts. Each one shows how strong the human spirit is and how much love we can have for others. As Barbie and her hardworking team try to get through the dangerous waters, they face a number of problems that test their resolve. Each chapter brings something new and more interesting than the last. The themes range from huge storms raging with wild fury to mysterious islands full of secrets waiting to be solved. Even with all of these problems, Barbie's goal is still the same: to bring hope to people who are feeling hopeless and lost in the night. Barbie and her team are a symbol of bravery, kindness, and a strong desire to help others on their journey. They show that one act of kindness can make a big difference in people's lives and change their fate, even when things look hopeless. They not only save people from the depths of the ocean, but they also make them feel welcome in a society that values relationships and second chances. This Rescue Radiance epic is more than just a bunch of rescue missions; it's a story that weaves together the lives of everyone it meets, teaching lessons about being brave, working together, and how important it is to see things beyond yourself. There is no sea too big for Barbie and her crew to cross when their hearts are led by empathy and kindness. Lastly, Barbie's trip across the ocean is a symbol of hope because it shows how strong relationships can be and how determined people can be to make the world a better place. The book is full of this timeless message: that we can get through even the worst storms together if we have faith in each other and our bonds. Chapter 1: The job is given. Barbie was taking the Rescue Radiance, a huge, shiny warship. She searched the seas for anyone who might need help. Barbie was told to find people who were stuck in the ocean and save them. Her work put in a lot of effort to make this happen. She had a group of smart and brave sailors with her. They had an amazing collection of tools and gadgets that helped them find anyone who needed help. Picture yourself floating out on the huge, blue ocean, where the water goes on forever in every direction. You might feel like you're looking for a needle in a haystack when you try to find someone in such a big place. Barbie, on the other hand, was ready for the test. She was ready to do anything to find people who needed her help because she knew they were out there. Barbie and her friends looked like superheroes from the water. Like how superheroes use special gear to save the day, Barbie's boat was filled with the latest technology. They had strong lights that could shine even when it was very dark, radars that could find ships from far away, and even special gear that let them dive deep into the ocean when they had to. Barbie really wanted to do things. The word "determined" meant that she was very focused and ready to put in a lot of work. Every person she saved would make a big difference in the world, she thought. She got dressed as a captain every morning and went through all of her tools and plans to get ready for the day. She knew that someone might be waiting for them in the hopes that they would be found. Barbie was brave, even though the ocean was very big. She really cared about other people and wanted to help them. She thought that with her group and all of their specialized tools, they could do great things. They can find people who are lost and bring them back to their families. She was very happy about this. She knew that helping other people was one of the best things she could do. So, Barbie and her team set sail every day on the Rescue Radiance, keeping an eye on the horizon for any signs or calls for help. When they worked together, they all wanted to save lives and make the water safer for everyone. Even though it was hard work, Barbie was always excited to start the day and see who they could help next. Chapter 2: The First Savings As the sun rose over the horizon and beautiful colors filled the sky, a big event took place on Barbie's ship, the Rescue Radiance. A loud beep came from the radar, a high-tech device used to find things in the ocean. This buzzer meant that Barbie and her team had a tough task ahead of them. High waves caused a small boat to flip over in the middle of the ocean while everyone was sleeping. The people on the boat were very scared by this. There was no time for Barbie to waste. She knew that she had to help with something. She quickly got her brave group ready to go find the small boat. There were big waves breaking in the sea. Their trip was hard, but Barbie and her friends were more motivated. They were determined to help no matter what. Before they could see the small boat, they had to face the rough water. It was upside down, and a family was holding on to it. Even though they looked scared, they stayed together. Once Barbie saw kids, she felt like she had to bring them to safety right away. Barbie and her staff worked in a very organized way. They used their skills to get close to the upturned boat without making the family more scared. They told them in a soft voice that everything would be fine and that they were safe now. One by one, they helped the family get on their huge, strong ship. The family was safe from the dangerous water, even though they were still wet and cold. After getting on the Rescue Radiance, Barbie and her friends warmed up with hot drinks and soft blankets. There was a special place on the ship where the saved people could rest and feel safe. The family felt better as they sat there in the warmth, even though they were very worried. Barbie and her friends helped them out, and they were very thankful. Barbie's group was nice to the family and thought about them. The people made sure the family knew they could get help and were not alone. The family was glad everyone was safe and praised Barbie and her team for being so brave. She and her team had a lot more saves to make, but the first one was just as important. They knew that their ship was a lighthouse of hope for other people in trouble on the big, scary ocean. Barbie was very happy with the job that her team had done. By saving the family that morning, she was reminded to help people in need and make a difference, which was the main reason she went out to sea in the first place. What she and her team did was save one person at a time. Chapter 3: Issues That Rise and Fall One day, Barbie and her friends were out at sea with the Rescue Radiance when they saw thick clouds forming far away. It looked like a huge, scary storm was heading their way. Storms can be dangerous because they can bring strong winds and big waves that can knock boats over. Barbie, on the other hand, knew something very important: there might be people out at sea who needed help and were badly hurt by the storm. Barbie had to make a tough choice. She knew that joining the storm would put her and her friends in danger. But she thought about the people who might be out there alone and scared in the storm. She decided that they should do everything they could to help. Even when things are bad, heroes help other people. Barbie then led the ship right into the storm. The wind howled like a lion, and the huge waves in front of the Rescue Radiance looked like water mountains. It was a tough fight with the weather. As the ship rocked back and forth, it rained like buckets of water were being thrown from the sky. Still, Barbie and her friends didn't give up and kept going. They were brave to help people in need even though it was storming outside. Even though the weather was crazy, with thunderclaps and lightning flashes, they saw something. A fisherman's small boat was tossed around by the huge waves. The storm had trapped the fisherman and stopped him from moving his boat forward or backward. He held on to his boat and prayed for help from God. She then came over with her group. The fishermen must have felt like they were seeing a rainbow after a storm when they saw the Rescue Radiance. They were able to reach the fishers even though there were big waves and strong winds. They threw him a wide rope and pulled him on board their ship, away from the dangerous sea. The fisherman was scared, cold, and wet, but he was safe now. He was shocked that he had made it through such a terrible storm. Barbie and her friends gave him warm clothes and a hot drink. They heard about how he got lost in the storm and told him he wasn't alone to make him feel better.
Download or read book Wreck of the Carl D written by Michael Schumacher and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: , Michael Schumacher reconstructs the terrible accident, perilous search, and chilling aftermath for the small Michigan town so intimately affected by the tragedy.
Download or read book Season of the Witch written by Mark D. Veum and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Season Of The Witch is an unconventional and different tale about men, women, the sea, a storm, a shipwreck and a myth that became reality. It is a tale that takes one into the life of a mariner as his ship heads on a one way voyage to eternity. It is the tale of a ferocious autumn storm and the ordeals a man and his wife are subjected to. It is the tale of survival as a man clings to a lifeboat and stares death in the face as he rides the tempests. It is the tale of a Great Lakes Shipwreck that will lead one to wonder if it really had happened.
