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Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do (Audiobook)

Posted By: bookwyrm
Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do (Audiobook)

Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do (Audiobook) By Michael Tougias, read by Joe Barrett
Unabridged edition 2006 | 11 hours and 3 mins | ISBN: 0786177152 | MP3 64 kbps | 318 MB


During the height of the blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals off the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat, but was soon in as much trouble as the tanker. Then pilot boat captain Frank Quirk, hearing of the Coast Guard's troubles on his radio, decided to act. He gathered his crew of four, readied his 49-foot steel boat, the Can Do, and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard that was to become known as the "Storm of the Century". Encountering one of the most monstrous seas ever recorded, Quirk struggled through the night to keep his boat from being driven to the depths of the sea, maintaining contact with a local ham-radio operator through his hand-held battery-powered radio. We know that the Can Do stayed afloat past three a.m. Then there was silence.