Fatal Storm (40 page)
Authors: Rob Mundle
Apart from this international bestseller
Fatal Storm
, he has written seven other books, including the authorised biography of high-profile Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond; the bestselling authorised biography
Sir James Hardy, an Adventurous Life
;
Ocean Warriors
(the story of the 2001/2002 Volvo Ocean Race round the world), and
Life at the Extreme
, the official record of the 2005/06 Volvo Ocean Race round the world.
Rob Mundle’s career has been based around all facets of journalism, corporate promotions, event management and boat building. His credits include working as a reporter and columnist on sailing and general boating for the
Daily Mirror
,
Sunday Mirror
and
The Australian
; establishing a career in television as a reporter, commentator and, at one stage, the prime-time news weatherman on the TEN network in Sydney (he was also a reporter and weatherman for ‘Good Morning Australia’); and being the only Australian member of the America’s Cup Hall of Fame Selection Committee, and a Director of the Australian National Maritime Museum’s Maritime Foundation.
He is also an Ambassador for the Cure Cancer Australia Foundation and over the past 17 years has coordinated projects that have contributed nearly $1.5 million to the Foundation for the funding of research activities.
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“The famous killer 1998 Sydney–Hobart Race has found its chronicler in Rob Mundle. An Australian journalist who was on the scene, he tells a gripping story of battles between small boats and a dreadful storm – battles often bloodily won by waves one sailor called ‘white-capped mountains’. Mundle’s portrayals of courageous sailors and heroic rescuers fighting for their lives are as vivid as any I have read.”
John Rousmaniere, author of
Fastnet, Force 10
“You don’t need to be an offshore racer to enjoy this book. Without question – thousands of people who have never been on a sailboat will buy it and enjoy it immensely. But those of you who have sailed offshore should run – not walk – to your nearest bookstore and pick up a copy, right now!”
Tom Leweck,
Scuttlebutt
“Rob Mundle’s book
Fatal Storm
is a riveting and harrowing story of the storm which devastated a sporting nation.”
Ray Kershler,
Daily Telegraph
“For most of the past 70 years, the standard text for sailors contemplating making ocean passages has been K. Adlard Coles’ work
Heavy Weather Sailing.
It now has a rival.”
Piers Ackerman,
Daily Telegraph
“Whatever else he [Rob Mundle] may write, this is likely to be his master work – and it deserves to be ranked a master work of reportage.”
Mike Power,
The Mercury
“This book is a fitting testament to all rescuers involved in the tragic events – and a warning to all those who want to sail offshore of the perils of the sea.”
Ed Featherston,
Herald Sun
“This is a book which I found difficult to put down…”
Vanessa Dudley,
Australian Yachting
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First published in Australia in 1999
This edition published in 2010
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Copyright © Rob Mundle 1999, 2000, 2008
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Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.
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, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Mundle, Rob.
Fatal storm : the 54th Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race / Rob Mundle.
Rev. ed.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 8834 1 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978 0 7304 4514 2 (ePub)
Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race (54th : 1998)
Yachting accidents – Tasman Sea.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Search and rescue operations – Tasman Sea.
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