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Perfect storm
Book 'The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea'

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Author Sebastian Junger
Country United States
Language English
Subject Andrea Gail, 1991 Perfect Storm, shipwrecks
Genre Creative nonfiction
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date May 17, 1997
Media type dvd and cd
Pages xii, 227
ISBN ISBN 0-393-04016-X
OCLC Number 35397863
Dewey Decimal 974.4/5
LC Classification QC945 .J66 1997
The Perfect Storm is a creative nonfiction book written by Sebastian Junger and published by W. W. Norton & Company in 1997. The paperback edition (ISBN 0-06-097747-7) followed in 1999 from HarperCollins' Perennial imprint. The book is about the 1991 Perfect Storm that hit North America between October 28 and November 4, 1991, and features the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gail, from Gloucester, Massachusetts, who were lost at sea during severe conditions while longline fishing for swordfish 575 miles (925 km) out. Also in the book is the story about the rescue of the three-person crew of the sailboat Satori in the Atlantic Ocean during the storm by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa (WMEC-166).
The book was adapted for the film of the same title, directed by Wolfgang Petersen and released in 2000. The Satori is renamed Mistral in the movie, and the since-retired USCGC Tamaroa is portrayed by a newer, 210-foot medium-endurance cutter.
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1 Plot
2 Crew members on the Andrea Gail
3 Other important people
4 Book controversy
5 References
6 External links
Plot[edit]

The book follows the lives of the swordfishing crew of the Andrea Gail and their family members before 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
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