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A real-life thriller in the tradition of The Perfect Storm In the spring of 2010 the world watched for weeks as more than 200 million gallons of crude oil billowed from a hole three miles deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Warnings of various and imminent environmental consequences dominated the news. Deepwater drillinglargely ignored or misunderstood to that pointexploded in the American consciousness in the worst way possible. Fire on the Horizon , written by veteran oil rig captain John Konrad and longtime Washington Post journalist Tom Shroder, recounts in vivid detail the life of the rig itself, from its construction in South Korea in the year 2000 to its improbable journey around the world to its disastrous end, and reveals the day-to-day lives, struggles, and ambitions of those who called it home. From the little-known maritime colleges to Transocean's training schools and Houston headquarters to the small towns all over the country where the wives and children of the Horizon's crew lived in the ever-present shadow of risk hundreds of miles away, Fire on the Horizon offers full-scale portraits of the Horizon's captain, its chief mate, its chief mechanic, and others. What emerg

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Author

Konrad, John; Shroder, Tom

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062063021

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Social Science

Rating

4.15 / 5 (145 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14