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William Morrow
March 2010
On Sale: March 1, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0061993999
EAN: 9780061993992
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Non-Fiction Memoir
On February 28, 2009, Nick Schuyler, a twenty-four-year-old
personal trainer, left for a deep-sea fishing trip with
three friends: NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith,
and Will Bleakley, his best friend, who once played football
for the University of South Florida. It was supposed to be a day of fun and relaxation aboard
Cooper's twenty-one-foot boat, which anchored seventy miles
west of Tampa, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico. The friends
were out to catch some amberjack and grouper and maybe a few
sharks. They planned to drink a few beers, have some laughs,
and get home before an approaching cold front hit. As the seas began to swell and the winds picked up in the
late afternoon, they packed their gear and decided to head
to shore. One problem. The anchor was stuck. Inexperienced boaters, they made what would become a fatal
mistake, tying the anchor rope to the stern of the boat and
hitting the throttle. The anchor did not yank free. Instead,
the stern sank and filled with water, and the boat capsized. And so the nightmare began. The men had to forage for life
jackets beneath the boat. They had no emergency beacon to
alert authorities, and their cell phones didn't work so far
out in the Gulf. With no food or water, the men clung to the
overturned hull through the night as the seas roughened and
the cloudy sky became inky black. They were continuously
tossed from the boat by brutal waves, and sometimes found
each other only by swimming toward their friends' voices. During the rare lull, they would pray and talk about the
ones they loved, what they would've done differently with
their lives, and what they would do once they returned home.
As the hours passed, the four friends, who had grown up as
athletes, worked as a team in their desperate bid to
survive. They battled hypothermia, hallucinations, hunger,
dehydration, and huge waves. A witness to incredible heroism and unspeakable tragedy,
Nick remained at sea for more than forty hours, holding on,
hoping against hope and clinging to the thought that he
couldn't bear to have his mother attend his funeral. Not Without Hope is much more than a story of
survival. It
is an inspiring story of friendship, resolve, and courage.
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