The Perfect Storm

Six men went out to sea, and didn’t come home. They were of temperament wild, and full of salt. Young men with all the fight still in them and too much pride to say, no to another bloody hunt. In ThePerfect Storm, Sebastian Junger tell us the last seconds in the lives of these fishermen on the doomed Andrea Gail, a sword boat that went down somewhere off the coast of Massachusetts in October1991, the author called the “perfect storm” perfect in the meteorological sense; the storm could not possibly have been worse." In the book, Sebastian Junger never allows more than imagination about whathappened to the six men aboard the Andrea Gail, but his work in the stuff nightmares are made of: "The crew of the Andrea Gail either have laryngospasms or completely inundated lungs. They aresuspended, open-eyed and unconscious, in the flooded enclosures of the boat. The darkness is absolute..."
The book follows the lives of the swordfishing crew of the Andrea Gail and their family membersbefore and during the 1991 Perfect Storm. Among the men boarding the Andrea Gail were Billy Tyne, Alfred Pierre, David "Sully" Sullivan, Michael "Bugsy" Moran, Dale "Murph" Murphy, and Bobby Shatford,each bringing their own intelligence, physical strength, and hope on board with them. The men were raised with the expectation that they would become fishermen. As "Sully" said, even before they hadleft for their long journey, "It's the money ... If I didn't need the money I wouldn't go near this thing."
Much of the early part of the book gives detailed descriptions of the daily lives of thefishermen and their jobs, and is centered around activities at the Crow's Nest, a tavern in Gloucester popular with the fishermen.
The latter part of the book attempts to reconstruct events at sea duringthe storm, aboard the Andrea Gail as well as rescue efforts directed at several other ships caught in the storm, including the attempted rescue of pararescuemen who were themselves caught in the...