Lost At Sea by Patrick Dillon
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Overview: On the morning of February 3, 1983, the Americus and Altair, two state-of-the-art crabbing vessels, idled at the dock in their home port of Anacortes, Washington. On deck, the fourteen crewmen–fathers, sons, brothers and friends who’d known one another all their lives–prepared for the ten-day trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. From this rough-and-tumble seaport the men would begin a grueling three-month season in one of the nation’s most profitable and deadliest occupations–fishing for crab in the notorious Bering Sea. Standing on the Anacortes dock that morning, the families and friends of the crew knew that in the wake of the previous year’s multimillion-dollar losses, the pressure for this voyage was unusually intense.
Eleven days later, on Valentine’s Day, the overturned hull of the Americus was found drifting in calm seas only twenty-five miles from Dutch Harbor, without a single distress call or trace of its seven-man crew. The Altair, its sister ship, had disappeared altogether; in the desperate search that followed, no evidence of the vessel or its crew would ever be found. The nature of the disaster–fourteen men and two vessels,apparently lost within hours of each other–made it the worst on record in the history of U.S. commercial fishing.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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