Fatal storm : the 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race / Rob Mundle.

By:

Mundle, Rob

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999.Description: 319 p., 48 p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24cmISBN:

0732264359

DDC classification:

797.140994 21

Contents:

Subject: The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it become one of the world's major sporting disasters. Six sailors tragically perished, countless others suffered injuries and numerous yachts sank or were badly damaged. The search and rescue operations was one of the most phenomenally accomplished peacetime efforts the world has ever seen, and had it not been for the superior organisational skills. many more lives would surey have been lost. Rod Mundle, one of Australia's leading journalists and yachtsmen, tells this story of challenge and survival with compassion, vigour and understanding. He details the history of the race, the excitement of the start and the thrill of competition, and from his extensive interviews with officials, crews, survivors and rescue service personnel he relates the calamity and triumph of the 1998 blue water classic

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	797.140994 FAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011217214

1. Are you doing the Hobart this year? -- 2. The great race -- 3. The anticipation -- 4. Sailing towards a brick wall -- 5. The cauldron begins to boil -- 6. Destined for disaster -- 7. A.M.S.A. -- 8. H.M.A.S. Newcastle spin-up -- 9. Winston Churchill Part I -- 10. Kingurra -- 11. Midnight special -- 12. Sword of Orion -- 13. B-52 -- 14. Miintinta -- 15. Business Post Naiad -- 16. Solo Globe Challenger -- 17. Winston Churchill Part II -- 18. Racing to the finish.

The Sydney to Hobart yacht race is one of the world's major sporting events. In 1998, it become one of the world's major sporting disasters. Six sailors tragically perished, countless others suffered injuries and numerous yachts sank or were badly damaged. The search and rescue operations was one of the most phenomenally accomplished peacetime efforts the world has ever seen, and had it not been for the superior organisational skills. many more lives would surey have been lost. Rod Mundle, one of Australia's leading journalists and yachtsmen, tells this story of challenge and survival with compassion, vigour and understanding. He details the history of the race, the excitement of the start and the thrill of competition, and from his extensive interviews with officials, crews, survivors and rescue service personnel he relates the calamity and triumph of the 1998 blue water classic

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