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The deadly wind and massive waves that slammed into the New England coast in the late fall of 1991 were destined to be immortalized in the bestselling book and film
The Perfect Storm. In this documentary produced by the Learning Channel, the scientific explanation for how the colossal storm formed from three separate weather systems is explained with clarity by a weather reporter for a Boston TV station who covered the storm as it was occurring. The tale of the now-famous crew of the fishing boat
Andrea Gail is told by a brother and mother of a crew member, and other sailors who endured the storm speak movingly of the weather's deadly ferocity. But the real centerpiece of this video is the intensely dramatic story of an Air National Guard helicopter crew who ran out of fuel while on a mission to save a boat crew in dire trouble. With no choice but to don survival suits and bail out of their doomed Blackhawk helicopter, the rescue team, some of them seriously injured, fought desperately to survive. Interviews with the helicopter crew, detailing their desperate struggle against the raging weather, give this documentary an immediacy and a human scale against which to measure one of the most massive storms on record.
--Robert J. McNamara
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The true story behind the hit summer release "The Perfect Storm." In late fall 1991, the New England seacoast was thrashed by one of the most vicious storms ever. The storm created 100 mile per hour wind gusts and violently crashing 100 foot waves. A 70-foot longliner, the Andrea Gail, surrendered to the perilous onslaught of the turbulent sea...
