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Lost at Sea Paperback - 2000

by Patrick Dillon

In a narrative filled with the excitement of "The Perfect Storm" and the historical significance and human drama of "A Civil Action", Dillon recounts the story of a commercial fishing voyage in 1983 that claimed the lives of 14 men and left a small town devastated by the loss.


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On February 3, 1983, the men aboard Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, docked in their home port of Anacortes, Washington, prepared to begin a grueling three-month season fishing in the notorious Bering Sea. Eleven days later, on Valentine's Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas, with no record of even a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair vanished altogether. Despite the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. Fourteen men were lost. And the tragedy would mark the worst disaster in the history of U.S. commercial fishing.
With painstaking research and spellbinding prose, acclaimed journalist Patrick Dillon brings to life the men who were lost, the dangers that commercial fishermen face, the haunting memories of the families left behind...and reconstructs the intense investigation that ensued, which for the first time exposed the dangers of an industry that would never again be the same

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ON A CLEAR MARCH DAY IN 1982, JUST OFF FALSE PASS THREE hundred miles west of the Alaskan Peninsula, an alarm sounded in the engine room of the fishing vessel Antares.

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  • Title Lost at Sea
  • Author Patrick Dillon
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1ST
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Touchstone Books, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 2000-08-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780684869094 / 0684869098
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.47 x 5.5 x 0.7 in (21.51 x 13.97 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1980's
    • Cultural Region: Oceania
    • Cultural Region: Pacific Northwest
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Alaska
    • Geographic Orientation: Washington
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 623.89

About the author

Patrick Dillon is the Adventure and Sailing Events Programming Director at QuokkaSports, Digital Sports Entertainment. He has won numerous awards, including a share of the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. His columns and essays have appeared in many publications throughout the nation, including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Fast Company.
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