This is a 2004 collection of the outstanding Atlantic Monthly journalist William Langewiesche’s best work concerning oceanic crime, anarchy and chaos. Read it on the five-hour flight back to the mainland, which was great except for his detailed, harrowing account of the 1994 deaths of 852 people that occurred when the mishandled, poorly maintained auto ferry Estonia capsized in rough Baltic weather. Langewiesche vividly shows that those few who survived largely did so because they were strong, lucky and didn’t hesitate when struggling friends and loved ones told them to go on without them.
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