Boat Survival

This is the first-person account of Herbert W. Stone, the second-mate of the Earnmoor, a tramp steamer which sank during a hurricane in the Atlantic on September 5, 1889. Stone and a handful of his surviving shipmates drifted in an open lifeboat for three weeks in the Gulf Stream before being rescued off of Cape Hatteras on September 26, 1889. Owned by the Earn Line Shipping Company of Philadelphia, the Earnmoor was built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Tyne, England. She was approximately 2,000 tons with a length of 280 feet and a beam of 36 feet. During her short life between ...

With Nazis bombing London every night, it's time for 13-year-old Ken to escape. He suspects his stepmother is glad to see him go, but his dad says he's one of the lucky ones - one of 90 boys and girls to ship out aboard the SS City of Benares to safety in Canada. Life aboard the luxury ship is grand-nine-course meals, new friends, and a life far from the bombs, rations, and his stepmum's glare. And after five days at sea, the ship's officers announce that they're out of danger. They're wrong.

Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Listeners will be transported by stories of amazing kids and how they survived!

The swamp doesn't forgive mistakes. And it never forgets its young. Marcus Weir wanted the ultimate viral video. He ignored the local warnings, bypassed the safety markers, and steered his group of friends deep into the forbidden back channels of the Louisiana bayou. They were looking for the "Queen of the Bayou"—a prehistoric legend the locals refuse to name. They found her. One reckless moment turns a celebratory trip into a blood-soaked struggle for survival. After a catastrophic collision with a massive juvenile alligator leaves their boat sinking and their group stranded, the real ...

There is nowhere to run when the hunting ground is surrounded by the black abyss. Caleb traded the freezing peaks for the relentless, driving rain of the Pacific Northwest coast. Desperate for off-the-books cash to fund his solitary journey, he takes a grueling job as a deckhand on the Iron Wake, a rusted commercial trawler pushing into unmapped, dangerous territory. The heavy ocean spray and overwhelming stench of diesel perfectly mask his scent, but they also severely cripple his supernatural senses. The desperate captain is hunting a massive payday, dropping pots in a forbidden stretch ...

The harrowing adventure-at-sea memoir recounting the heroic search-and-rescue mission for lost Montauk fisherman John Aldridge, which Daniel James Brown calls "A terrific read." I am floating in the middle of the night, and nobody in the world even knows I am missing. Nobody is looking for me...

A dying town. A blood debt from the deep. A nightmare awakening. Collin Mercer hasn’t returned to Black Tide Point in eleven years, and for good reason. The dilapidated fishing village is drowning in rot, sulfur, and long-buried secrets. But when a salvage dive uncovers an antique pendant from the silt of a submerged channel, it awakens a starving, ancient apex predator. This is no fairy tale. It is a ruthless, elongated nightmare with translucent teeth that uses the drowned as bait. Trapped inside a flooded cannery while a violent storm surge cuts off all escape, Collin is forced to face...

The true account of the 2017-2018 solo nonstop circumnavigation by Jerome Rand aboard the Westsail 32 Mighty Sparrow. A testament to endurance and adventure, this memoir recounts what life is like aboard a small sailboat during a 271-day voyage around the globe, alone, and without stopping. One of the greatest challenges of both body and mind, the author will take you onboard during the good times and the bad. As one of only a handful of people to have ever succeed in such a small boat, this story is truly the adventure of a lifetime.

The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with...

The divers survived the dive. Then they reached the surface—and discovered their boat was gone. Daniel Mercer joined the Ocean Quest hoping to overcome the memory of a rescue that ended in tragedy. But while he and eleven other divers explore a remote tropical reef, a hidden mechanical failure sends their dive boat to the bottom. When the first group surfaces, they find only floating debris, open ocean and a current carrying them farther from land. One diver is missing. Another may be suffering from decompression sickness. A crew member could still be trapped inside the sunken vessel. ...

A dream vacation on a luxurious yacht turns deadly in this pulse-pounding beach read. "Fabulous read." —Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View From Lake Como "Irresistibly wicked ... I couldn't put it down!" —Kathryn Stockett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Help Belle...

A tropical paradise. A stranded boat. A feeding frenzy. Captain Luis Delgado knows the most beautiful secret in the Leeward Antilles. But when a catastrophic engine failure leaves his charter boat dead on the reef, the tranquil cove becomes a claustrophobic trap for his fourteen passengers. With the radio dead, the tide rising, and the relentless Caribbean sun beating down, escaping the crippled vessel becomes a ticking clock. But the real nightmare is waiting just beneath the surface. Drawn by blood and trapped by the volcanic rock, an aggressive school of apex predators has turned the ...

A Culinary Adventure on the High Seas A bold and completely necessary guide to eating at sea (or how to stay alive while everything is wet, moving or actively trying to kill you. The Sailor’s Survival Cookbook is here to help you navigate the treacherous waters of maritime cooking, where your kitchen is the size of a shoebox, your stove is possessed by demons, and gravity is more of a suggestion than a rule. This book is not about fussy, overcomplicated recipes that require Michelin-star skills, rare Amazonian spices, or the patience of a monk. This is about 100+ easy meals designed for ...

Lake George was supposed to be a summer paradise. On the crowded afternoon of July third, the blue skies turn a bruised, chemical green. A sudden, violent waterspout touches down in the southern basin, tearing through the marina and ripping two teenage parasailers from the sky. Veteran marine patrol officer Ray Mercer has never seen destruction on this scale. On the shattered shoreline, off duty ER nurse Lena Hart must fight to keep her family and strangers alive using nothing but scavenged debris and sheer willpower. Then the sirens sound again. The first storm was just a warning. The next...

A man alone on the open water. A sea that remembers. A predator that refuses to leave. When Daniel Vale sets out on what should have been a quiet ocean crossing, he expects nothing more than wind, salt, and solitude. But the sea has other plans. A trench opens beneath his vessel — silent, unnatural, impossibly deep — and something begins to rise from it. Something that watches him. Something that learns him. As the days stretch into a waking nightmare, the ocean becomes a living presence, replaying fragments of Daniel’s past, twisting them into echoes, interpretations, and judgments. ...

The storm has passed, but the deadliest secrets are buried underwater. Amateur sleuth and architectural expert Rowan Adler survived the hurricane, but the battle for her island estate is just beginning. To meet her inheritance deadline, she desperately needs to rebuild Widow's Keep's rotting ferry docks and crumbling stone boathouse. But when an elite mainland dive team arrives to survey the underwater pylons, their lead engineer is murdered in the deep—his air hose cleanly sliced. The police rule it a tragic accident, but Rowan and her protective harbormaster, Finn Locke, know better. ...

An up-to-the-minute survival guide from the creator of Survivorman explores how to stay alive in the wild, in the jungle, in the desert, and in urban disasters. From the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon, Les Stroud has made a life of surviving in the...

Across Islands and Oceans is the memoir of 25 year-old James Baldwin and his epic two-year, solo circumnavigation in Atom, his trusty but aging 28-foot sailboat.

What if the biggest risk in life isn’t taking chances–but letting fear stop you from taking them at all? At twenty-one, Dean Klinkenberg was accepted into a study-abroad program in Grenoble, France—and backed out. The fear won. He spent one more winter in Wisconsin instead of a semester at the foot of the Alps, and he never forgot which one he'd chosen. Better Safe Than Sorry? is the story of the years since then when he's spent choosing differently.

A devastating secret has been buried off the shores of Kilkee since 1982. Now, something colossal has awakened in the dark waters. When journalist Ryan embarks on a routine expedition aboard the Cuan Mara research vessel, he expects to uncover local myths. Instead, a catastrophic electromagnetic pulse disables their ship, leaving the crew stranded in the churning Atlantic. An ancient apex predator, armed with unimaginable destructive capabilities, is hunting them from the abyss. Trapped in a life-or-death struggle against an unstoppable marine entity, Ryan and the surviving crew must ...