Contributions

  • Webster, Elizabeth B. - Contributor

Publication

2014 - The History Press, Charleston, South Carolina

Language

English

Word Count

31,750 words, Guess

Page Count

127 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781626195882
  • ISBN-101626195889
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014025443
  • OCLC Control Number879583992
  • Better World Books9781626195882
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC910.9163/46
  • LCCG530.S725 W43 2014
  • LCCG530.S725W43 2014

Description

"On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the Sol e Mar. When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cry for help, and believing that the two were connected, the U.S. Coast Guard did not launch rescue units for several days. The Hokansons' deaths prompted a new anti-hoax law and changed United States Coast Guard search and rescue procedures. Historian Captain W. Russ Webster, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), and journalist Elizabeth B. Webster chronicle the fascinating story of the Sol e Mar and its crew and explain the psychology of hoax callers and Coast Guard technological advancements since the tragedy"--

Subjects

Places

MassachusettsMartha's Vineyard RegionMartha's Vineyard Region (Mass.)

People

Billy HokansonWilliam Hokanson

Times

Links

Other Editions

  • The Sol e Mar tragedy off Martha's VineyardThe History Press2014-01-01

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