Dan’s review of “The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings” can be found in the Spring 2020 edition of The Nautilus, A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture.

Your vessel may be equipped with the most advanced technology and the most powerful engines, but the failure to apply the basic principles of bridge resource management can still prevent you from getting where you are going.

For all its romance, the tall-ship renaissance has a tragic side. Working from official documents, survivor and expert interviews, and his own tall-ship experience, Parrott re-creates the losses of five sail-training vessels.