Download Ten Hours Until Dawn: The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the Can Do AudioBook Free
[Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case]
*Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
*Included: the actual radio transmissions from the doomed boat and the Coast Guard
[Read by Joe Barrett]
During the height of the blizzard of 1978, a tanker foundered on the shoals off of the Massachusetts coast. The Coast Guard dispatched a patrol boat that was soon in trouble, too. A pilot-boat captain, Frank Quirk, heard of the Coast Guard's plight on his radio. He gathered his crew of four, readied his forty-nine-foot steel boat, the 'Can Do', and entered the maelstrom of the blizzard soon to be known as the ''Storm of the Century''.
Encountering one of the very most monstrous seas ever recorded, Quirk struggled during the night to keep his boat from sinking, maintaining contact through his hand-held battery-powered radio. The 'Can Do' stayed afloat past three a.m. Then there is silence.
Through a large number of interviews as well as recordings of the air communications exchanged between Quirk and the Coast Guard -- actual recordings included within this audiobook -- Michael J. Tougias provides us a devastating, true account of bravery and death at sea.
