I am ur oceanz braking ur boatz

I'm reading a whole bunch of books about shipwrecks, kind of interspersing them in with my steady diet of fiction. Right now I'm reading a book called Ten Hours Until Dawn, about what happened to the Can Do in the blizzard of 1978. The author tells a number of smaller stories in the course of the large story.

The story of Howard Blackburn is simply amazing. Well worth reading the book just for Blackburn's story.

Here is a link that tell the bare bones of his story.

http://www.capeannhistoricalmuseum.org/fisheries/blackburn.htm

And here is one in his own words that tells of his terrible ordeal at sea.

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1982/2/1982_2_58.shtml

The story is gruesome and graphic but it's also astounding. This man's will to not just survive but to go on to live a full life of adventure is astonishing.