Disasters at Sea

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Dag Pike draws on his experience as merchant navy captain, fast boat navigator and boat safety tester for RNLI lifeboats to focus on a wide range of disasters at sea. He has compiled accounts of yachts, motorboats and commercial vessels running into difficulty as a result of poor navigation, fog, miscalculation, human error, or weather conditions and has analysed in a readable and entertaining fashion what caused the disaster, what went wrong, how it was dealt with and the lessons learned. Examp...Vis mer