Based on interviews with the crew and captain of a torpedoed tanker
who survived nineteen days in a lifeboat in heavy seas and scorching
tropical sun--this information is incredibly useful even today.
How to Abandon Ship was written during World War II to save the lives
of seamen by instilling a commonsense, organized, no-panic clarity to
getting off torpedoed ships safely and, perhaps more importantly,
surviving later. It is a gem that can once again be used to save
lives.
Former schooner captain and author Twain Braden updates this solid and
useful advice with a foreword addressing today's technology. Braden used
How to Abandon Ship to teach crewmembers fifty years after it was
written while sailing the rugged and dangerous Maine coast.
The writing in How to Abandon Ship is so clear it has been used in
college English composition classes. You will find vivid and pertinent
information on everything from medical emergencies, thirst, and hunger
to weather and morale.It pulls no punches, and its advice is strident
but useful. In the words of the authors: "This manual is concerned
solely with human lives. Its purpose is to aid you to get off a sinking
ship and to eventual safety in the best condition possible."
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