In this volume, 20 more shipwrecks are described, the best known being that of the Ocean Ranger, with the tragic loss of 84 lives in 1982. One might think that only morbid curiosity would draw readers to recountings of so much tragedy and so many drownings. Yet there is a great deal of courage revealed in these pages, on the part of both shipboard people and outport rescuers, much human interest in how the captains and crew handled their fates, and even a few ghost stories thrown into the mix.