Fire at Sea
2 min readJun 5, 2023
“Fire at Sea”is the thrilling story of the rescue of 530 people aboard a burning cruise ship in a typhoon in the Gulf of Alaska. It’s now a four-hour, five part podcast produced by Wondery that tells the remarkable story of the fire and sinking of the cruise ship Prinsendam, 140 miles off the coast of Alaska in October 1980. The US Coast Guard calls the nail-biting rescue, ”The greatest high seas rescue in Coast Guard history.”