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It may be listed in the historical records as an unnamed hurricane, but the 1991 storm that sank a boat off the Eastern Seaboard is better known as the “perfect storm.”
Oct 27, 2021 · According to the best-selling novel "The Perfect Storm" by Sebastian Junger, it was during this intensification phase of the low that presumably sunk the fishing boat "Andrea Gail" on Oct. 28 ...
The Perfect Storm is a 2000 American disaster drama film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and based on the 1997 creative non-fiction book of the same name by Sebastian Junger.The film was adapted by William D. Wittliff, with an uncredited rewrite by Bo Goldman, and tells the story of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel that was lost at sea with all hands after being caught in the Perfect ...
Jun 2, 2009 · Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Storm, A Death in Belmont, Fire, War, Tribe, and Freedom. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair, and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world, and has received both a National Magazine Award and a Peabody Award.
May 1, 1997 · October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed.
Oct 30, 1991 · The Perfect Storm makes landfall along the North Atlantic seaboard, October 30, 1991. NOAA image. Also known as the Halloween Storm, “The Perfect Storm” of literary and Hollywood fame wracked the Atlantic seaboard in late October 1991 and sunk the Andrea Gail. On 30 October 1991, this nor’easter reached peak intensity when it was 340 ...
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 ...
