In 1629 the pride of the Dutch East India Company struck a reef off Western Australia. What happened to the survivors on those waterless islands was not a tragedy of the sea but of men – one of the darkest mutinies and massacres in history.
On a storm-lashed November night in 1975, the largest freighter on the Great Lakes vanished from radar without a single distress call, taking all 29 men aboard. This is the story of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
It killed more people than the Titanic and the Lusitania combined, and you have probably never heard its name. The story of the MV Dona Paz is the deadliest peacetime disaster in maritime history, and a portrait of everything that can go wrong at once.
