Storms and wild water / / Dag Pike

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461069303321
• Autore: Pike Dag
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, England : , : Adlard Coles Nautical, , 2009
• ISBN: 1-283-19424-4; 9786613194244; 1-4081-1230-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (160 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.1231
• Soggetti: Hydrologic cycle; Storms; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 1 The Eye of the Storm; 2 Forecasting Storms; 3 Ships in Storms; 4 Small Craft in Storms; 5 World Weather and Storm Creation; 6 Tropical Revolving Storms; 7 Extreme Waves; 8 Perfect Storms; 9 When the Storms Meet the Land; 10 The Wild Southern Ocean; 11 Atlantic Ocean Storms; 12 Indian Ocean Monsoons; 13 Pacific Ocean Cyclones; 14 Regional and Local Winds; 15 Wild Water and Whirlpools; 16 Tsunamis; 17 The Future; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Dag Pike draws on his experience as merchant navy captain, fast boat navigator and boat safety tester for RNLI lifeboats to focus on a wide range of disasters at sea. He compiles a wide range of accounts of yachts, motorboats and commercial vessels running into difficulty as a result of poor navigation, fog, miscalculation, human error, weather conditions etc and analyses in a readable and entertaining fashion what caused the disaster, what went wrong, how it was dealt with and the lessons learned from it. Examples range from the Fastnet disaster, powerboat races, boats run down in the Channel