Untamed Seas: One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival - Softcover

Kiley, Deborah Scaling; Noonan, Meg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618127275 ISBN 13: 9780618127276

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2001

Synopsis

One late autumn day in 1982, the fifty-eight-foot yacht TRASHMAN set sail on a routine trip from Annapolis to Florida, with Deborah Scaling and four others aboard. When the boat sailed into a seventy-knot gale, it went down quickly, leaving the crew adrift in the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy that was quickly surrounded by sharks. Five harrowing days and nights later, when a Russian freighter finally came to their rescue, only two crew members remained. Powerful, adrenaline-charged, utterly consuming, UNTAMED SEAS is a brave, unforgettable story that plunges to the depths of the human psyche and surfaces with the strength to survive.

About this title

About the Author:

Deborah Scaling Kiley is an avid sailor who in her youth participated in an Outward Bound program that later helped her survive the wreck of the Trashman. She went on to graduate from the University of Texas in 1999 and routinely speaks and writes on survival. Kiley currently lives in Texas with her children Marka and John.

Review:

"A riveting and frightening true story told with startling candor and power. I read it without breathing." -- Dodge Morgan, author of The Voyage of American Promise

"[Untamed Seas] makes most other accounts of shipwreck and survival seem like cotton candy. I couldn't put it down." -- Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0618127275
• ISBN 13: 9780618127276
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256