Alexandra's Travel Adventure Making Friends in Mexico

The best of rugged travel adventure and peril in the vein of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air. The ship's radars tracked the approaching storm. Expanding on the screen as it gathered in intensity, Hurricane Iris bore down on the jewel of the Caribbean. On October 8, 2001, the 120-foot luxury live-aboard dive yacht Wave Dancer and its sister ship Aggressor III, were secured to a concrete dock in southern Belize when they were struck by the hurricane. the small byut deadly category four hurricane, with winds of 140 mph and storm surges of fourteen feet, ripped the Wave Dancer from its cleats, tossing it like a toy across the lagoon. When the storm subsided an hour later, twenty of the boat's twenty-eight occupants were dead. The investigation of the Wave Dancer tragedy - the worst in the history of recreational diving - revealed that the boat's owner and captain had ignored storm warnings and needlessly endangered the lives of their passangers and crew.Burnworth, Joe is the author of 'Alexandra's Travel Adventure Making Friends in Mexico', published 2005 under ISBN 9789781578601 and ISBN 9781578602.