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Bezig met laden... Great Stories of the Great Lakesdoor Dwight Boyer
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Fourteen accounts of shipwrecks, salvage operations and sailors' experiences on the world's largest fresh-water seas. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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What I took from the book was a better sense of how extreme the weather conditions on the Great Lakes can be, as well as a general impression that most of the disasters he describes could have been avoided with better weather forecasting, better ships and skippers who weren’t under as much pressure to meet schedules. But that is probably true for marine accidents anywhere in the world. Obviously what is peculiar to the Lakes is that ships are on short and very familiar, frequently travelled routes, never more than a few hours from shelter, but the weather changes can be very rapid.
Fun if you like disaster stories, but you might prefer a more recent book, especially given that the most celebrated Great Lakes shipwreck, the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred some ten years too late for Boyer to have included it. ( )