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- catalog abstract ""In 1983 the Marine Electric, a "reconditioned" World War II vessel, was on a routine voyage thirty miles off the East Coast of the United States when disaster struck. As the old coal carrier sank, chief mate Bob Cusick watched his crew - his friends and colleagues - succumb to the frigid forty-foot waves and subzero winds of the Atlantic. Of the thirty-four men aboard, Cusick was one of only three to survive. And he soon found himself facing the most critical decision of his life: whether to stand by the Merchant Marine officers' unspoken code of silence, or to tell the truth about why his crew and hundreds of other lives had been unnecessarily sacrificed at sea." "Like many other ships used by the Merchant Marine, the Marine Transport Line's Marine Electric was very old and made of "dirty steel" (steel with excess sulfur content). Many of these vessels were in terrible condition and broke down frequently. Yet the government persistently turned a blind eye to the potential dangers, convinced that the economic return on keeping these ships was worth the risk." "Cusick chose to blow the whistle. Until the Sea Shall Free Them re-creates in detail the wreck of the Marine Electric and the legal drama that unfolded in its wake."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12546872.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In 1983 the Marine Electric, a "reconditioned" World War II vessel, was on a routine voyage thirty miles off the East Coast of the United States when disaster struck. As the old coal carrier sank, chief mate Bob Cusick watched his crew - his friends and colleagues - succumb to the frigid forty-foot waves and subzero winds of the Atlantic. Of the thirty-four men aboard, Cusick was one of only three to survive. And he soon found himself facing the most critical decision of his life: whether to stand by the Merchant Marine officers' unspoken code of silence, or to tell the truth about why his crew and hundreds of other lives had been unnecessarily sacrificed at sea." "Like many other ships used by the Merchant Marine, the Marine Transport Line's Marine Electric was very old and made of "dirty steel" (steel with excess sulfur content). Many of these vessels were in terrible condition and broke down frequently. Yet the government persistently turned a blind eye to the potential dangers, convinced that the economic return on keeping these ships was worth the risk." "Cusick chose to blow the whistle. Until the Sea Shall Free Them re-creates in detail the wreck of the Marine Electric and the legal drama that unfolded in its wake."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "341 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Until the sea shall free them.".
- catalog identifier "0385501161".
- catalog isFormatOf "Until the sea shall free them.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Doubleday,".
- catalog relation "Until the sea shall free them.".
- catalog spatial "North Atlantic Ocean.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "363.12/3/09163 21".
- catalog subject "G530.M3135 F78 2002".
- catalog subject "Marine Electric (Ship)".
- catalog subject "Marine accidents Investigation United States.".
- catalog subject "Shipwrecks North Atlantic Ocean.".
- catalog title "Until the sea shall free them : life, death, and survival in the Merchant Marine / Robert Frump.".
- catalog type "text".