Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
12.08.2026
Verlag
Anthony David MarshallSeitenzahl
(Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
359 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780992922542
In 1959, a teenage sailor named Dave Marshall spent six terrifying hours adrift in shark-infested waters in the South Pacific before he was found. He made himself a promise that day: no one should ever have to go through what he did. That promise became a lifelong mission.
The Beacon Man is the true story of how that promise led to the invention of the personal locator beacon the small device now credited with saving thousands of lives at sea. It is also the story of the obstacles David faced along the way: skeptical banks, resistant bureaucrats, and years of hard, solitary work as a self-taught electronics engineer, before Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath personally intervened to help cut through the red tape holding the invention back.
From a chance meeting with Sir Richard Branson, who ordered beacons for his own expeditions, to recognition from HRH Princess Anne at the London International Boat Show, to a feature on BBC's Tomorrow's World, David's journey took him from a dockside sweet shop in Hull to a business recognised around the world all driven by a single-minded determination that no sailor should be lost at sea for want of the technology to find them.
Woven through with real rescue stories a transatlantic rower saved after Concorde picked up his distress signal, fishermen rescued from a burning trawler, and more The Beacon Man is a story of tragedy turned to triumph, and one man's refusal to give up on an idea that has, quite literally, saved countless lives.
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