{"product_id":"overboard-a-true-blue-water-odysey-of-disaster-and-survival","title":"Overboard!: A True Blue-Water Odysey of Disaster and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn May 2005, Tom Tighe, captain of a forty-five-foot-long sailboat named the \u003ci\u003eAlmeisan,\u003c\/i\u003e and his first mate, Loch Reidy, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut across the blue waters of the Gulf Stream to sun-drenched Bermuda. The new crew included forty-six-year-old Kathy Gilchrist, seventy-year-old Ron Burd, and thirty-four-year-old Chris Ferrer. Although Tighe had made the trip forty-eight times, with Reidy accompanying him on twenty of those voyages, the rest of the crew had joined to learn more about offshore sailing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFour days into the voyage, an enormous storm struck, sweeping two of the crew into the towering sea. The remaining crewmembers managed to stay aboard the vessel as it was slowly torn apart by the rampaging ocean. \u003ci\u003eOverboard!\u003c\/i\u003e follows the simultaneous desperate struggles of both those still on the boat and those fighting for their lives in the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Coast Guard, alerted to the \u003ci\u003eAlmeisan's\u003c\/i\u003e distress, rushed to the storm-tossed scene. Their ensuing search and rescue mission proved so spectacularly difficult and dangerous that it was later selected - from among thousands of incidents - as the Guard's search and rescue case of the year. Highly trained helicopter pilots and rescue swimmers alike found themselves in almost as much trouble as those trapped by the ferocious ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy turns tragic, thrilling, and deeply inspiring, \u003ci\u003eOverboard!\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting, fast-paced story of death and survival at sea - amazing, unforgettable, and all true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42986272063568,"sku":"9781439145753B","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/overboard-a-true-blue-water-odysey-of-disaster-and-survival","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}