“The cure for anything is salt water —
sweat, tears, or the sea.”

~ Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), Seven Gothic Tales (1934)

A blackout in a smoke-filled engine room. A typhoon that swallows a ship whole. A honeymoon that goes catastrophically wrong. A rescued macaw finding its way home.

Salt, Smoke, Steel brings together twenty-five extraordinary stories from eighteen seafarers who have lived through disaster, laughter, heartbreak, and everything the ocean throws at those who dare to sail her. Written by masters, engineers, and lifelong lovers of the sea, these are the stories rarely told ashore: unfiltered, unforgettable, and utterly true.
This is not a book about ships or sea. It is a book about the people who sail them, and the waves that change them forever.

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Authors

Abid Ansari, Aditya Saxena, Amit Suri, Anil Deswal ‘Dash’, Aniruddha Pimpalkhare, Capt. Bhupesh Gandhi, Deepak Raju, Dipankar Deb, Mahesh Prasad, Prabal Mohanty, Ramesh Subramanian, Capt. Rippudaman Sudarshan, Sandeep Kumar, Sirius Seshaji Ratnakumar Wayte, Srinivasan TB, Sunil Anand Roy, Vaibhav Mohan, Venkat Krishna Soundarraja