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Here is a truly remarkable story of mystery, suspense, acute danger and extraordinary courage – a modern shipwreck which could have so easily taken hundreds to their deaths.
After the cruise ship Mikhail Lermontov out of Sydney first hit rocks on the New Zealand coast north of Picton, nearly everyone on board though of the Titanic. Even the band played on. But surely there was no reason for alarm? Ships on modern cruises didn’t sink. They were so close to shore, and besides, the only ice was in the cocktails in the Bolshoi Lounge.
In Death of a Cruiseship, author Tom O’Connor presents a cross-section of the passengers, the entertainers and the crew as they move through a normal day ashore. Then when the worst kind of trouble occurs and the ship hits rocks, we follow these people through all their varied expressions and concerns, and sometimes desperate attempts to get free of the sinking ship.
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