Into the Raging Sea. Rachel Slade

Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2018

      Copyright © 2018 by Rachel Slade

      Cover design by Allison Saltzman

      Cover images © Mike Hill/Photographer’s Choice/Getty Images

      Copyright © Rachel Slade 2018

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       Designed by Suet Yee Chong

       Ship illustration by Michael Chan

       Map by Mike Hall

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      Source ISBN: 9780008302474

      Ebook Edition © May 2019 ISBN: 9780008302450

      Version: 2019-05-16

Dedication

       To the families and friends of those

      lost on El Faro.

       No one should have to endure such sorrow.

Epigraph

      There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

      —LORD JIM, JOSEPH CONRAD

      Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

       Contents

Cast of Characters

Chain of Command Aboard El Faro

El Faro Plans and Sections

A Note on the Text

Part I

Chapter 1: The Clock is Ticking

Chapter 2: Blount Island

Chapter 3: Tropical Storm Joaquin

Chapter 4: Third Mate Jeremie Riehm

Chapter 5: A Hurricane Is Not a Point on a Map

Chapter 6: Second Mate Danielle Randolph

Chapter 7: Collision Course

       Chapter 8: Hull Number 670

       Chapter 9: Afternoon

       Chapter 10: Captain Michael Davidson

       Chapter 11: Question Authority?

       Chapter 12: The Jones Act

       Chapter 13: Evening

       Chapter 14: Night

       Chapter 15: Necesitamos La Mercancía

       Chapter 16: Dawn

       Chapter 17: The Raging Sea

       Chapter 18: We’re Gonna Make It

       Part II

       Chapter 19: We’ve Lost Communication

       Chapter 20: Search and Rescue

       Chapter 21: Flight to Jacksonville