LEADER 02525nam 2200577 450 001 9910461069303321 005 20211005154147.0 010 $a1-283-19424-4 010 $a9786613194244 010 $a1-4081-1230-2 035 $a(CKB)2670000000105976 035 $a(EBL)738829 035 $a(OCoLC)742333616 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541597 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12270121 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541597 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10499090 035 $a(PQKB)11126066 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC738829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5237043 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003120 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3003120 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000105976 100 $a20180430d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStorms and wild water /$fDag Pike 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon, England :$cAdlard Coles Nautical,$d2009. 215 $a1 online resource (160 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4081-1231-0 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aDag 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 606 $aHydrologic cycle 606 $aStorms 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHydrologic cycle. 615 0$aStorms. 676 $a363.1231 700 $aPike$b Dag$029806 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461069303321 996 $aStorms and wild water$92475845 997 $aUNINA