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This is the harrowing story of one of the most detrimental shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. In the first early morning of November 29, 1966, the SS Daniel J. Morrell was captured in a lethal storm on Lake Huron. Waves greater than the dispatch crested over it, and winds exceeding 60 mls each hour whipped at its hull, splitting the 603-feet freighter into two giant pieces. Amazingly, after the bow transpired, the stern blindly run itself through the stormy seas for another five mls! Twenty-eight men drowned in the icy waters of Lake Huron, but one sailor - 26-year-old Dennis Hale - miraculously survived the treacherous storm. Wearing only boxer shorts, a lifejacket, and a pea layer, Hale clung to a life raft in near-freezing temperature ranges for 38 hours until he was rescued later in the afternoon of the next day. Three of his fellow crewmates perished in his raft. In Deadly Voyage, Andrew Kantar recounts this story of tragedy and triumph on Lake Huron. Informed by careful research and the eyewitness details provided by Hale, Kantar depicts one of the most tragic shipwrecks in Great Lakes history. The publication is printed by Michigan Point out University Press.
