Description: On February 14, 1983 the overturned hull of the fishing vessel Americus was spotted drifting in the Bering Sea; and the hunt for its sister ship would turn up empty. The 14 crewmen onboard -- the husbands, fathers and sons of the town of Anacortes, a town changed forever -- were lost. This is their story.

In a narrative filled with the excitement of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm and the historical significance and human drama of A Civil Action, Patrick Dillon recounts the story of a commercial fishing voyage that claimed the lives of fourteen men and left a small town devastated by the loss. Based on a ten-year investigation into the mysterious destruction of the Americus and Altair off the Alaskan coast in 1983, Lost At Sea vividly recreates the relentless dangers fisherman face and reveals how the profit-driven practices of the multi-billion-dollar fishing industry contribute to an on-the-job death toll that is one of the highest in the nation.

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