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Six: Cruising the North Atlantic

From: The Imperilled Ocean

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In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey tells the story of Favio Oñate Órdenes, a crew member on board the Queen Mary 2 who fell overboard during a transatlantic crossing. The chapter includes a discussion of the history of cruise ships, the experience of working on a cruise ship and the controversies that surround the treatment of crew.

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Laura Trethewey

Laura Trethewey is an ocean journalist whose writing has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Courier International, the Walrus, Globe and Mail, Canadian Geographic and at Ocean.org, the multimedia storytelling site of the Vancouver Aquarium. The Imperilled Ocean is her first book.