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During the evening of October 4, 1980, in the Pacific Ocean nearly 330 miles from Valdez, Alaska, a fire engulfed the engine room of the Prinsendam, a Holland America cruise ship carrying 320 passengers, most of them elderly. As the fire raged out of control, the ship’s captain faced the most dire decision of his career: Could he give the order to abandon ship in the face of a typhoon bearing down on the Prinsendam’s position? The story of this disaster at sea, and of the near-miraculous rescue that ensued, is recounted in heart-stopping detail in this powerful book. Drawing on extensive interviews with passengers, crew, and coast guardsmen, combined with exhaustive research, Saving the Prinsendam brings to life the last moments of the doomed cruise ship and the heroic efforts of the Coast Guardsmen who managed to transport every passenger to safety before the Prinsendam rolled and slid bow-first to the bottom on October 11. Told in the hour-by-hour style of Walter Lord's Titanic classic: A Night to Remember, the book recreates the drama of one of the most memorable—and successful—rescue operations ever to be conducted at sea.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 910.91644
EAN: 9780760320792
ISBN: 0760320799
Label: Zenith Press
Manufacturer: Zenith Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2006-03-18
Publisher: Zenith Press
Studio: Zenith Press
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Summary: Cruise Ship Prinsendam
Comment: A very interesting tale of disaster at sea. An enjoyable read with a few technical errors. Having been involved in this event as a member of the U. S. Coast Guard in Juneau at the time of the disaster I was very interested in the story. Overall a very good job on the part of the author.
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Summary: (Nurse) Opinion From One of the Last Off The Ship
Comment: The Story Of The Prinsedam is one that was long overdue. As the only Nurse onboard the Prinsedam as it caught Fire and Sank I would have greatly enjoyed sharing my accounts of what happened on that day to Mr. Jeffers. The Story is still very intriguing, swaying here and there from the truth. Overall I enjoyed reading about an event in my life that makes a really great story.
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Summary: a book about the "Prinsendam"
Comment: The book was interesting. Why did it take so long to get a book on the "Prinsendam"?
The reason for four stars is that the author claims that this was "the greatest sea rescue of all time". No, it wasn't. THE GREATEST SEA RESCUE OF ALL TIME WAS IN JULY 1956 WHEN NEARLY 1,700 PEOPLE WERE SAVED FROM THE "ANDREA DORIA"
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Summary: Blah
Comment: I was on the Woodrush at the time of this disaster. Nice to see a review by one of my old friends here, who felt the same way I do about this book. This truly was not only a Coast Guard response, but a Sitka response as well; everyone in that town turned out to help, be it hotelier, clothing store, or EMS (kudos to Anne and my former mother-in-law) This book just didn't seem to give much thought to the bigger picture. Purchase the book if you were not there, but my advice would be if you were involved in "The greatest maritime rescue in Coast Guard history," to simply keep your memories of this in your heart.
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Summary: Fire And Water Don't Mix
Comment: This book chronicles the October 1980 voyage of the Holland America liner "Prinsendam," the rescue of her passengers and crew, and her ultimate foundering in the Gulf of Alaska. The story certainly has enough substance to be enthralling and suspenseful, but I found the book to be overly wordy; references to authors like Shakespeare pointlessly bloat the book, there are frequent, over-dramatic bits of trivia inserted, and the author reminds the reader in approximately every other sentence that rescuing elderly passengers at sea in bad weather is a difficult proposition. (I got that concept the first time.) There is also seemingly limitless speculation on what movie stars would play what roles if the story was produced as a feature film, a device that I found extremely annoying.
The book relies on press clippings and passenger recollections more than the official Dutch accident investigation, which tends to color and sensationalize some of the events. There are also some factual errors and oversights both on the maritime and on the aviation rescue side of the house, which detracted from the book. The author attempts to personalize the accident with backstories about the passengers, which in many cases backfires: in particular the former New Jersey state senator (Fairleigh Dickinson) who is lionized by the author comes across as a pompous windbag, and appears more insufferable than heroic in my estimation. Characters are great for plot development; the right characters are critical.
One major flaw in the book, which tends to relegate it to the historical litterbin is the complete lack of a bibliography or reference citation system of any sort. In a nonfiction book of this nature, that is an absolutely unpardonable sin, and one that would essentially force any serious maritime historian to take the book with a grain of salt.
Having said all this, I awarded the book three stars: despite the faults, it is the only published account of a noteworthy sea disaster, and does teach valuable lessons about maritime safety on cruise ships. The "Prinsendam" disaster taught the cruise industry a lot about shipboard safety, and the ships of today are safer because of the accident. I recommend this book only with reservations: the storyline is occasionally gripping (though generally bloated with trivialities), but the account could, and should, have been much better. If you are interested in safety at sea, this is a quick and not uninteresting read, but understand that the safety systems in cruise liners have changed substantially since 1980, and many of the lessons learned have now been broadly incorporated in shipbuilding and procedural practices.
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