shipwreck survival

In May 2005, Tom Tighe, welcomed three new crewmembers for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. They were sailing on Tom's forty-five-foot long sailboat, the Almeisan. Four days into the voyage an enormous storm struck, sweeping two crew members into the ocean. Those left onboard battled for their lives. The Coast Guard came to their resuce but found itself in as much trouble as the Almeisan's crew and the two in the ocean. The search and rescue was so diffuclt that this case was chosen as the Coast Guard's search and rescue case of the year.

Racked by hunger, buffeted by storms, and scorched by a tropical sun, Steve Callahan drifted in the sea for 1,800 miles in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized. He survived more than two months at sea, fighting off sharks with a makeshift spear and watching as nine ships passed him by before one finally rescued him.

During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.

Examines the lives of the individuals who survived the sinking of the Titantic, featuring details gathered from letters, memoirs, diaries, and interviews.

Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.

In 1974, fourteen-year-old Bonnie, eight other Amelia Earhart Cadets aged nine to seventeen, and their irresponsible young leader are stranded on a forbidden island off the coast of Thailand on the brink of a deadly storm and must fight to survive.