The Finest Hours Analysis

The Finest Hours by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman is the story the brave men who risked their lives to rescue survivors from two sinking tankers. The story describes the struggles the rescue team endured during their missions. The authors went into great detail describing the procedures and methods to save the survivors. The way the authors described the dangerous voyage to reach the tankers, makes you feel like you were there. The rescue teams consisted of brave men, who risked their lives to save others.
The weather out at sea is extremely dangerous, and if you are caught in the middle of the storm, it could be a fatal situation for you. This was the case for the sailors that were on their voyage to the harbor. The tankers captains made a choice to keep the ships off the coast because their visibility of the harbor …show more content…
They had to find a method to lower the survivors to a lower level. The winds were blowing to fast for the rescue crew to launch their ropes to the top. The winds would blow the ropes away from the tankers. On one of the tankers the survivors had no choice but to jump into the freezing waters. Then the rescue team would quickly grab the men, so they wouldn't float away with the waves. This method risked the survivors health. They would go into hyperthermia and they would contract frostbite from the freezing waters. The other tanker had around 30 people aboard it. The rescue that reached them were aboard a four person capacity boat. The survivors were low enough to jump onto the rescue boat. The rescue team risked their lives by rescuing all 30 survivors at one time. On the last trip to rescue the survivors the rescue boat would have sank, if they would have added weight to the boat, so they fixed the problem by hooking a life raft to the back of the boat. All the situations the rescue team were faced with, they had to make instant decisions to save the life's of