Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro Free Audiobook Download by Rachel Slade

In September 2015, the El Faro was rowing towards San Juan when it got caught in a storm. The crew of thirty-three found themselves capsizing and sinking somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. Vinny Lordi, the captain of the ship, knew that they were in trouble when they were left without communication with anyone. In an effort to survive, they made sure that everyone would get out of bed at the same time and escape on a lifeline. This "battling" strategy allowed them to escape with all hands still alive but also meant that there was less focus on trying to find their way back to shore.

Into the Raging Sea is a true story about the sinking of the El Faro, a ship that was carrying 33 crew members and over one million pounds of cargo from Florida to Puerto Rico. In October 2015, Hurricane Joaquin hit. The captain didn't want to make an attempt to stay in port, so he decided to continue on with his trip. But then the storm got worse when the company received a distress call from one of the passengers who had been advised not to go back into the open waters because it was too dangerous.

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro gives readers a behind-the-scenes look into one of the most mysterious maritime disasters in recent history. In September 2015, the cargo ship El Faro mysteriously disappeared, killing all 33 crew members aboard. Journalists and investigators quickly pointed their fingers at Captain Michael Davidson, but his attorney insists that he wasn't responsible for what happened.

The El Faro was a cargo ship that was trying to deliver 13,000 tons of phosphate rock from the port in Antigua to its final destination in Florida. It is believed that the ship lost power before it could reach land and sank on October 1, 2015. The first half of the book is about the journey of the El Faro. The captain and his crew are told to sail through Hurricane Joaquin, which they successfully do. After passing through the hurricane, communication with them is cut off for four days as they pass through a gyre where there is no land or any other ships near them. The second half of the book focuses on what happens after communication is restored and they realize they are being led into a series of disasters.

On October 1, 2016, the El Faro cargo ship left Jacksonville, Florida bound for San Juan. The storm had been named Joaquin and soon after it arrived, the three-masted cargo ship took on water. Thirty-three sailors were aboard and they died as a result of flooding, drowning as they tried to lay decks under pressure with pails and garden hoses. In order to understand what happened that deadly night in the open sea, we need to put ourselves into the shoes of one of those mariners. We need to look at our own lives before embarking on a journey like theirs and ask ourselves if we would be brave enough to do what these men did.

The book is the story of one ship, El Faro, and her crew of 33 mariners. In September 2015, El Faro was caught in a hurricane off the coast of Florida and sank in a matter of hours. The storm caused confusion amongst the sailors because they were not given enough information by the captain about how to avoid the storm's last-minute shift from east to west. The boat was left with no navigation lights, a wrong heading, and no ability to maneuver.