[seadog] A Gotta Read..
- From: "Tom Blanchard" <tomblanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "SEADOG" <seadog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 17:15:47 -0400
SEADOGS...
Looking for a good summer read? Westerns and romance novels getting old?
Clancy and Grisham shoveling out the same old stuff. YOU GOTTA READ THIS
ONE!
UNTIL THE SEA SHALL FREE THEM by Robert Frump (Doubleday, June 2002) is the
story of the Marine Electric, the US flag dry bulker that sunk in February
of 1983 with a loss of 31 out 34 lives. The story has amazing insight into
the shipping business from the company as well as the seafarers point of
view.
This story should be read before your next lifeboat drill,
.... before you put away that cargo load plan
.... before any item is "postponed" in a shipyard
.... before you make that last round of the deck before turning in
.... before you "get out of" donning the survival suit in the next drill
.... before you leave the engine room at night.
In short, it as book that can speak to all of us in many parts of our jobs,
especially keeping old but good vessels running. The politics and posturing
of the press (very powerful) as well and the motivation of a decent company
like MTL after an incident is chilling.
I do not recommend you read this book while aboard a vessel. Mr. Frump has
captured the struggle of the officers and crew on the doomed Marine Electric
in such details it is best to be on dry land when your nose comes out of the
book. Keep a blanket nearby, the detail is chilling.
The book is available at Amazon.com and most larger book stores. At Amazon
try
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385501161/qid=1026681085/sr=1-1/ref=
sr_1_1/104-0509262-3362311
ANYBODY ELSE FIND A GOOD "SUMMER READ" PASS IT ALONG to the SEADOGs.
Be Safe,
Tom
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