In spare, lyrical prose 'The Perfect Storm' describes what happened when the Andrea Gail looked into the wrathful face of the perfect storm. It is the story of the old battle between the fisherman and the sea, between man and Nature, that awesome and capricious power which can transform the surface of the Atlantic into an impossible tumult of water walls and gaping voids, with the capacity to break an oil tanker in two. The perfect storm that Junger chronicles in his book has sometimes been called The No-Name Storm or the Halloween Storm. The book detailed a 1991 Halloween Nor’easter that included the three elements needed to make a perfect storm. This is the story of that storm, told through the accounts of individual fishing boats caught up in the maelstrom, their families waiting anxiously for news of their return, the rescue services scrambled to save them. The 'perfect storm' is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm winds over an Atlantic island - Sable Island - and colliding with a weather system from the Caribbean: Hurricane Grace. The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler a mesmerizingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.
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