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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Boston Molasses Disaster, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Dust Bowl, Hanford Site, Summitville Mine, Picher, Oklahoma, Libby, Montana, Collapse of the World Trade Center, Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Love Canal, New Carissa, Kingston Fossil Plant Coal Fly Ash Slurry Spill, Salton Sea, Osborne Reef, Cosco Busan Oil Spill, New River, Phillips Disaster of 1989, 1924 Nixon Nitration Works Disaster, Berkeley Pit, 1948 Donora Smog, Greenpoint Oil Spill, Lake Peigneur, 2010 Port Arthur Oil Spill, Wade Dump, Phillips Explosion of 2000, 2008 New Orleans Oil Spill, View-Master Factory Supply Well, Phillips Explosion of 1999, Brio Superfund Site, Murphy Oil Spill (Chalmette, Louisiana), 1969 Santa Barbara Oil Spill, North Cape Oil Spill, Donora Smog Museum, Dioxin Contamination in Times Beach, Missouri. Excerpt: Coordinates : 40°32 18 N 74°22 43 W / 40.538333°N 74.378611°W / 40.538333; -74.378611 The 1924 Nixon Nitration Works disaster was an explosion and fire that claimed many lives and destroyed several square miles of New Jersey factories. It began on Saturday morning, March 1, 1924, when an explosion destroyed a building in Nixon , New Jersey used for processing ammonium nitrate . The 11:15 a.m. explosion touched off fires in surrounding buildings in the Nixon Nitration Works that contained other highly flammable materials. The disaster killed twenty persons, destroyed forty buildings, and demolished the "tiny industrial town of Nixon, New Jersey." The setting The Nixon Nitration Works, which included a number of plants, covered about twelve square miles on the Raritan River, near New Brunswick, in what was then officially known as Raritan Township, New Jersey and unofficially known as Nixon, New Jersey. It was originally created by naval architect and industrialist Lewis Nixon in 1915, up...
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Timothy Tremaine
reviewed Environmental Disasters in the United States: Boston Molasses Disaster, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Dust Bowl, Hanford Site, Summitville Mine on January 26, 2020
Environmental Disasters in the United States: Boston Molasses Disaster, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Dust Bowl, Hanford Site, Summitville Mine
Humberto Fontova seems a fun guy, and he's done good work politically in helping to expose the lunacy of idolizing tyrants like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. I first became acquainted with his writing through libertarian web sites. As a memoirist, however, Fontova apparently loves his own prose. Exhibit A: the title of this book. It's not just a spearfishing adventure; it's a "deadly, extreme" spearfishing adventure. He (and his editors) would have done better to let readers supply the adjectives in their own heads.
On the plus side, kudos to Fontova for writing about the early life of Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau, who (as many people do not know) was a spearfishing legend before he hit it big with National Geographic specials about the ocean in the Seventies. It was also amusing to find out that oil rigs have become havens for marine life, and that polyester suits and other disco-era regalia can be usefully recycled as wetsuits-on-the-cheap.
On the minus side, what wore me out about about this book after awhile was its "party all the time" ethos and occasional sloppiness. It's not a Cuban thing, it's a Fontova thing. I suspect Fontova's subsequent writing about Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, while equally impassioned, is better.
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