George Michelsen Foy
Auteur van Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human
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George Michelsen Foy is the author of Finding North: How Navigation Makes Us Human and Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence. He was a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship in fiction and his articles, reviews, and stories have been published by Rolling Stone, Harper's, toon meer and The New York Times. A former commercial fisherman and a watch-keeping officer on British tramp coasters, he holds a captain's license from the US Coast Guard. Foy teaches creative writing at New York University, and with his family divides his time between coastal Massachusetts and New York. toon minder
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Run the Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro (2018) 40 exemplaren
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Foy explains how things work, things that contributed to the sinking of SS El Faro. I never really understood the making of a hurricane and how it could go from an insignificant low far away to a category 4 shipwrecker. Now I do. Nor did I understand the inner workings of a merchant marine vessel - it's loading and engine functions. Now I do. Nor did I really understand the corporate policies that make delivering a cargo more important than the lives of the crew.
Investigations into sinkings need to have more teeth. They need to be able to force changes rather than simply recommend changes.… (meer)