The Perfect Storm

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This article is about the book entitled The Perfect Storm. For the actual storm see 1991 Halloween Nor’easter; for the movie based on the book see The Perfect Storm (film); for the idiom "perfect storm", see perfect storm.
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The Perfect Storm is a book (ISBN 0-393-04016-X) written by Sebastian Junger and published by Little, Brown and Company in 1997. The paperback edition (ISBN 0-06-097747-7) followed in 1999 from HarperCollins' Perennial imprint. It is about the 1991 Halloween Nor’easter that hit North America in October 1991, and features the crew of the fishing boat Andrea Gail, based out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who were lost 575 miles (925 km) at sea during the severe conditions. All 6 crewmembers were lost, including Captain Billy Tyne, Robert "Bobby" Shatford, Dale "Murph" Murphy, David "Sully" Sullivan, Michael "Bugsy" Moran and Alfred Pierre.

A film adaptation of the book, also titled The Perfect Storm, was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and released in 2000.


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