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The gripping true story of a failed rescue and a tragedy at sea
In the predawn darkness of September 5, 1996, the Heather Lynne II was struck by a barge and overturned in calm seas 10 miles off Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Trapped inside, three fishermen were alive in the diesel-choked air pocket that kept the boat afloat.
Onlookers waited for the Coast Guard, but when a Coast Guard cutter arrived, it carried no divers. Two hours after the collision, rescue divers finally pulled the three men from the capsized vessel scant minutes too late. Rescuers worked frantically to restore life during the airlift to a Boston hospital, but on arrival, the men were declared dead, their shredded knuckles and fingertips mute evidence of the horror of their last hours.
Dead Men Tapping opens four years later in a federal courtroom, where the victims' families are suing the U.S. Coast Guard. As the story unfolds, we come to know the trapped fishermen, their community, their would-be rescuers, the Coast Guardsmen, and the crew of the tug and barge that ran down the Heather Lynne II. These ordinary people, doing what they think is their best, propel Dead Men Tapping to its heartbreaking conclusion.
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A 1996 collision off the Massachusetts coast between a barge-pulling tugboat and the fishing boat Heather Lynn II resulted in the latter overturning and trapping all three crewmen, who tapped on the ship's hull to let nearby fishermen know they were alive. When the Coast Guard showed up too late to help the crew, questions were asked and lawsuits filed. Tracking the 2000 lawsuit, Yeomans, herself a writer, fisherman and boat captain, jumps back and forth between courtroom statements and the events of the fateful day. Connecting the testimony of each participant-the tugboat captain, the salvager, local fishermen and Coast Guard personnel-and a recap of their day with her clean prose and knowledgeable insight, Yeomans brings the tragic day to life on the page. Helping to put this sad tale in the right context and provide the reader with a historical perspective, Yeomans intersperses similar tales of boat-to-boat collisions and rescue missions where the Coast Guard's actions and protocol were questioned. While the story is compelling, this book doesn't truly pull at one's heart-strings like the best of ocean adventure books have, because Yeomans never really puts the reader in the shoes of the three lost fishermen. Still, filled with examples of maritime law and the unwritten laws of the sea and seafarers, this book provides an intriguing glimpse into the lives of the men and women who are employed in one of America's most dangerous professions.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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4 人中、4人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Nailed it
2003/10/31
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I was present during the latter stages of the Heather Lynn incident, and (being from Gloucester)have seen both the Coast Gaurd and Mike Goodridge work several other of the accidents portrayed.
Kate Yeomans has nailed perfectly the people and events that I know personally... so I assume the rest of the book. is similarly accurate.
This book is more than a sea story.. it's about the difference between people who know what they're doing and people who take far too seriously the whole idea of credentials and protocol.
Mike Goodridge may well someday be hurt.. but if so.. it will be because he attempted a rescue that the professional heros either wouldn't or couldn't.
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Dead Men Tapping: The End of the Heather Lynne II
2003/11/1
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This book was awesome. Ms. Yeomans writes a terrific story that will have you sitting back totally buried in the story she tells. Having had many friends and acquaintances in the fishing industry who have had similar experiences, most of them fatal, I can only surmise that the entire United States Coast Guard needs to be revamped, all its employees trained, and that the Guard MUST be held accountable for the actions that they take, or in this case, that they refused to take by not allowing Mike Goodridge to assist in the rescue. Had he been able to communicate with the Coast Guard and been given the real truth about what was going on, I feel certain that these three men would not have drowned. As to the comment that Mr. Goodridge is a cowboy, I can guarantee that everyone of the fishermen I talk to and work with would call him or a member of one of his franchises (SeaTow) in a heart beat, rather than taking the chance that the Coasties would not appear on time.
A must read for anyone involved with the commercial fishing industry. Well read, excellent plot, extremely well researched and heartbreaking. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to find out about the perils of maritime salvage, commercial fishing, and just for a plain old damn good read.
A must read for anyone involved with the commercial fishing industry. Well read, excellent plot, extremely well researched and heartbreaking. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to find out about the perils of maritime salvage, commercial fishing, and just for a plain old damn good read.
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From A Different Perspective
2003/10/22
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Although I understand and can empathize with the grief experienced by the families at the loss of their loved ones, I am still stung by the spin this book portrays about the Coast Guard. The book appears to be written to evoke sympathy for the lost fishermen, although I have to believe that by the mention of the author's fiance and father-in-law as direct players in this unfortunate accident, that there was more a personal gain at stake here than an attempt to tell the real story. Through her writing style and bias, she compels the reader to go along with the belief the fishing community in the Northeast holds about the Coast Guard, in that they decide when the Coast Guard should help them out and when they should be left alone. And when all hell breaks loose, they want to point the finger at the Coast Guard for not doing enough. Let's not forget that these same fishermen blatantly ignored prudent seamanship and navigation (as well as the tug) by not manning the pilothouse or tracking other contacts in the area. Since when is it the Coast Guard's job to assume responsibility for a poorly trained and ignorant fisherman who chooses to ignore simple basic rules of safe seamanship???
The book does a real poor job of accurately portraying the confusion and chaos the duty officer was going through in trying to determine the best way to get rescue response out to the stricken vessel. Instead, the author portrays the individual, along with the station duty officers and crew, as bumbling fools without a clue. It's no wonder, as the book stated, the duty officer refused to talk to the author.
The commercial salvor at the heart of the attempted rescue is nothing more than a cowboy, who is purely lucky by the grace of God that nothing bad has happened to him up to this point. Instead, the author attempts, successfully in a sort of "stick-it-to-the-Coast Guard-fashion", that there is glory in being a Rambo-like savior of the sea, and that if he somehow fails in the future, all those rescues and salvages he performed in the past will somehow validate his one failure. Yet if the Coast Guard, for all its thousands of successful rescues and lives saved, screws up once, none of those successes are even given an afterthought. It was amazing how quick she forgot just how easily fishermen put others at danger. Had the fishing boat she wrote of early on in the book hit her boat, I wonder who she would blame...the Coast Guard for not being there to prevent the collision? Given the tone of her book here, that story just might be the sequel.....
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