Books with title Five against the Sea

It was January 19, 1988. The waters were calm and the skies cloudless as five fishermen set off on a week-long trip off the Costa Rican coast. Five days later, their twenty-nine-foot wooden craft was foundering against thirty-foot waves as a dreaded north wind -- El Norte -- struck with full force. Set adrift in a badly leaking vessel, they faced the perils of more storms, shark attacks, near-madness, a mutiny, and bouts of starvation and thirst. Continuously bailing, the five men endured a record 142 days lost at sea -- until they were rescued 4,500 miles across the Pacific Ocean.

A thrilling, heartfelt adventure.An action packed tale of daring, courage, overcoming insurmountable odds, and the strength of friendship. When the world turns its back on Alex Thompson, the son of a fisherman, his life is shattered. He meets Jack, a retired Navy mechanic, and his granddaughter Maureen who’s past is her own dark secret. Together they stumble on a sunken Navy ship worth millions. Join them as they journey from the depths of despair to the depths of the ocean, battling the perils of wind, waves and a ruthless corporation who will stop at nothing to get the wreck first. With the help of a group of old veterans with nothing to lose, they plot a course straight into harm’s way. When two damaged souls come together to salvage a wreck, can they salvage themselves in the process? Will they find the healing they so desperately need, or will they, too be swallowed whole by the Atlantic?

James Norman Hall (1887–1951) was an American author best known for the novel Mutiny on the Bounty with co-author Charles Bernard Nordhoff (1887–1947) an English-born American novelist and traveler. Mutiny on the Bounty is the title of the 1932 novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, based on the mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh, commanding officer of the Bounty in 1789. It has been made into several films and a musical. It was the first of what became "The Bounty Trilogy", which continues with Men Against the Sea, and concludes with Pitcairn's Island.