Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barrelled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the El Faro–the worst American shipping disaster in almost half a century. How could the container ship have been so vulnerable? Journalist Rachel Slade interviewed family members and maritime experts to give us the horrifying story–in prose sometimes taken straight from the ship’s data recorder.