Ten Hours Until Dawn (Young Readers Edition): The True Story of Heroism and Tragedy Aboard the "Can Do"

An epic tale of bravery at sea from Michael J. Tougias, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Finest Hours.

In the midst of the Blizzard of 1978, the tanker Global Hope floundered on the shoals in Salem Sound off the Massachusetts coast. When the Coast Guard heard the Mayday calls, they immediately dispatched a patrol boat. But within an hour, the Coast Guard boat was in as much trouble as the tanker—both paralyzed in unrelenting seas. Enter Captain Frank Quirk who was compelled to act. Gathering his crew of four, Quirk plunged his forty-nine-foot steel boat,the Can Do, into the blizzard.

Perfect for fans of the I Survived series, this middle gradea daptation of an adult nonfiction book chronicles the harrowing journey of Captain Quirk and the Coast Guard as they struggled in the holds of a radical storm.

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