58 Degrees North: The Mysterious Sinking of the Arctic Rose

The fishing industry has the highest casualty rate of any profession and yet you hear next to nothing when a fisherman perishs unlike a firefighter or policeman mind you taking nothing away from either of these professions. In 2001 in the far corners of the bering sea the Artic Rose without warning or any mayday or distress signal sinks bringing about the deadliest american fishing boat accident in 50 years. This follows the attempted rescue by the coast guard and the resulting lengthily investigation as to what caused the sinking of the boat, a boat that had a previous life as a shrimp boat in the gulf of mexico and at the time of the accident was converted to a flatfish bottom trawler. The author also gives a detailed background on the crew a crew except of the captain and a couple of others were very inexperienced. The crew came form all over from montana to mexico and from the descriptions seem that most were on a steady stream of bad luck. This was a pretty fastpaced book that should keep your interest the only problem i had with this book i felt the author should have group the background information together,it seems scattered through out the book like it was a after thought in some sections. If you like this book or stories like it i would recommend books by Spike Walker and William McCloskey

In 2001 an industrial fishing trawler went down in the Arctic and sank so quickly there was no time for the crew to even call for help. All aboard were killed - leaving behind no trace of the cause, no witnesses, and a mystery involving a rapid sinking under calm seas. Journalist Hugo Kugiya's investigation is as much a probe of the modern fishing industry's controversial operations as it is a review of the disaster itself, making 58 Degrees North: The Mysterious Sinking Of The Arctic Rose an adventure in politics and survival alike. Absorbing and well detailed.