One late autumn day in 1982, the fifty-eight-foot yacht TRASHMAN set sail on a routine trip from Annapolis to Florida, with Deborah Scaling and four others aboard. When the boat sailed into a seventy-knot gale, it went down quickly, leaving the crew adrift in the Atlantic in a rubber dinghy that was quickly surrounded by sharks. Five harrowing days and nights later, when a Russian freighter finally came to their rescue, only two crew members remained. Powerful, adrenaline-charged, utterly consuming, UNTAMED SEAS is a brave, unforgettable story that plunges to the depths of the human psyche and surfaces with the strength to survive.
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"A riveting and frightening true story told with startling candor and power. I read it without breathing." -- Dodge Morgan, author of The Voyage of American Promise
"[Untamed Seas] makes most other accounts of shipwreck and survival seem like cotton candy. I couldn't put it down." -- Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places
"[Untamed Seas] makes most other accounts of shipwreck and survival seem like cotton candy. I couldn't put it down." -- Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places
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Deborah Scaling Kiley is an avid sailor who in her youth participated in an Outward Bound program that later helped her survive the wreck of the Trashman. She went on to graduate from the University of Texas in 1999 and routinely speaks and writes on survival. Kiley currently lives in Texas with her children Marka and John.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Awsomely written thriller,
By MacKenzie Wasson (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Untamed Seas: One Woman's True Story of Shipwreck and Survival (Paperback)
This book was an awsome book that was so thrilling i read it in two days. It's not like other books such as In the heart of the sea or knockdown or the perfect storm because those books go into a lot of background details which can be extremely boring. This book doesn't do that because it is a first hand account so there is no maybes or this probobly happened or any of that stuff. It was very exiting yet sad to sea the affects of what happened on people and their lives. I thought it was great...........so will you.
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A real hero and an inspiration. I would have given up. Courage and class!A great read, you will be gripped!
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I read this book in two sittings, some parts I was almost too scared to keep reading. The part where they tip over the boat to rinse out all the crap from Meg's leg (bloody infection stuff) and they can't tip it back and the sharks are surely going to smell all that in the water...I almost died just reading it. After reading this I had some burning questions about a lot of things I went to her website and emailed her. She was sooo nice, answered all my questions.
Don't read this on the beach or even in the tub!
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Coast Guard, Gulf Stream, Ocean Greyhound, Bar Harbor, Steve Winwood, Cape May, John Lippoth, Southwest Harbor, Black Knight, Cape Hatteras, Fort Lauderdale, Les Williams, Lord's Prayer, Mark Adams, Meg Mooney, Miss Whitbread, Morris Newberger New!
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- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales on page 184, and Back Matter
- Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why by Laurence Gonzales on page 194
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