Sail the Wild Seas

The North Atlantic has always been a place of danger, mystery, and fear. From the era of the early explorers to modern-day seamen, the brooding ocean finds a way to exact its wages from those daring enough to sail out into its vastness. Deemed the stormiest ocean on earth, it is still the most traversed. Newfoundland and Labrador juts out into the middle of this maelstrom. From fire, shipwrecks, submarine attacks, rocks, fog, and thrilling rescue operations, these twenty-three stories of ocean misadventure and chance delve into the depths of that great element of nature lapping our doorstep. Sail the Wild Seas presents tales of the sea that are sure to thrill all who love this province of ours and those who are drawn to the incredible lure of the North Atlantic. Marine misadventures range from Hedley Lakes story of how he survived the torpedoing of the SS Caribou during World War II; to the deadly derelicts, ghosts of the ocean, waiting for their n