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(More customer reviews)I was present during the latter stages of the Heather Lynn incident, and (being from Gloucester)have seen both the Coast Gaurd and Mike Goodridge work several other of the accidents portrayed.
Kate Yeomans has nailed perfectly the people and events that I know personally... so I assume the rest of the book. is similarly accurate.
This book is more than a sea story.. it's about the difference between people who know what they're doing and people who take far too seriously the whole idea of credentials and protocol.
Mike Goodridge may well someday be hurt.. but if so.. it will be because he attempted a rescue that the professional heros either wouldn't or couldn't.
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The gripping true story of a failed rescue and a tragedy at sea
In the predawn darkness of September 5, 1996, the Heather Lynne II was struck by a barge and overturned in calm seas 10 miles off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Trapped inside, three fishermen were alive in the diesel-choked air pocket that kept the boat afloat.
Onlookers waited for the Coast Guard, but when a Coast Guard cutter arrived, it carried no divers. Two hours after the collision, rescue divers finally pulled the three men from the capsized vessel scant minutes too late. Rescuers worked frantically to restore life during the airlift to a Boston hospital, but on arrival, the men were declared dead, their shredded knuckles and fingertips mute evidence of the horror of their last hours.
Dead Men Tapping opens four years later in a federal courtroom, where the victims' families are suing the U.S. Coast Guard. As the story unfolds, we come to know the trapped fishermen, their community, their would-be rescuers, the Coast Guardsmen, and the crew of the tug and barge that ran down the Heather Lynne II. These ordinary people, doing what they think is their best, propel Dead Men Tapping to its heartbreaking conclusion.
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