Salvage - a Personal Odyssey [Audiobook] download free by Ian Tew
- Listen audiobook: Salvage - a Personal Odyssey
- Author: Ian Tew
- Release date: 2007/11/1
- Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9781574092561
- Rating: 8.52 of 10
- Votes: 116
- Review by: Benson Antonio
- Review rating: 7.33 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 3H46M39S in 256 kbps (59.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-10
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPC, MP4, WAV, MP3, WMA, FLAC, MPEG4 (compression LZ, TAR.7Z, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 296
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M48S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: No cure, no pay'- those are the terms under which a salvor operates, and in doing so he takes on an onerous responsibility. If he is defeated by the elements he is not paid. He receives nothing, however much money, effort, sweat and tears he has put in. Salvage is not a business for the faint-hearted.Ian Tew joined Selco Salvage of Singapore in 1974, and spent over a decade on the front line. Already an experienced master mariner, he learnt the salvage trade in the busy waters of the Far East before rising to command some of the world's largest supertugs, eventually becoming a roving salvage master. In his odyssey he roamed the world, from the coast of Cornwall to the Southern Ocean, from the Gulf of Suez to the dangerous reefs of the South China Sea.This is a vivid account of those ten tough years - successes, failures, tows and rescues - a barge adrift in a hurricane in the English Channel - a freighter aground on a reef hundreds of miles from land with a tropical storm approaching - a trawler battered by the surf on a coral reef, its bottom ripped out - a tanker hit by a missile in the Gulf during the 'Tanker War' of the 1980s.The tugs themselves play a big part in the story, as do the crews and captains the author worked with. This gripping account of drama at sea is a tribute to the seamanship, courage and resourcefulness of the salvor, and an insight into the technical, commercial and human issues behind the headlines.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Boating, Memoirs, Ships & Shipping
- Download servers: Google Drive, ZeoSpace, JumpShare, Mediafire, FreakShare, Uploaded. Compressed in LZ, TAR.7Z, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 35.58 USD
- Dimensions: 204x262x18mm
- Weight: 730g
- Printed by: Sheridan House
- Published in: Lanham, United States
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