The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Nicholas Sparks
- ISBN: 978-1538717066
- Language: English
- Genre: Southern Fiction, Medical Thrillers, Small Town & Rural Fiction
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- Page: 352
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For Dawson Cole, the hallucinations began after the
explosion on the platform, on the day he should have died.
In the fourteen years he’d worked on oil rigs, he thought
he’d seen it all. In 1997, he’d watched as a helicopter lost
control as it was about to land. It crashed onto the deck,
erupting in a blistering fireball, and he’d received seconddegree burns on his back as he’d attempted a rescue.
Thirteen
people, most of them in the helicopter at the time, had died.
Four years later, after a crane on the platform collapsed, a
piece of flying metal debris the size of a basketball nearly took
his head off. In 2004, he was one of the few workers
remaining on the rig when Hurricane Ivan slammed into it,
with winds gusting over a hundred miles an hour and waves
large enough to make him wonder whether to grab a parachute
in case the rig collapsed. But there were other dangers as well.
People slipped, parts snapped, and cuts and bruises were a way
of life among the crew. Dawson had seen more broken bones
than he could count, two plagues of food poisoning that
sickened the entire crew, and two years ago, in 2007, he’d
watched a supply ship start to sink as it pulled away from the
rig, only to be rescued at the last minute by a nearby coast
guard cutter.
But the explosion was something different. Because there
was no oil leak—in this instance, the safety mechanisms and
their backups prevented a major spill—the story barely made
the national news and was largely forgotten within a few days.
But for those who were there, including him, it was the stuff of
nightmares. Up until that point, the morning had been routine.
He’d been monitoring the pumping stations when one of the
oil storage tanks suddenly exploded. Before he could even
process what had happened, the impact from the explosion
sent him crashing into a neighboring shed.
After that, fire was
everywhere. The entire platform, crusted with grease and oil,
quickly became an inferno that engulfed the whole facility.
Two more large explosions rocked the rig even more violently.
Dawson remembered dragging a few bodies farther from the
fire, but a fourth explosion, bigger than the others, launched
him into the air a second time. He had a vague memory of
falling toward the water, a fall that for all intents and purposes
should have killed him. The next thing he knew, he was
floating in the Gulf of Mexico, roughly ninety miles south of
Vermilion Bay, Louisiana.
Like most of the others, he hadn’t had time to don his
survival suit or reach for a flotation device, but in between
swells he saw a dark-haired man waving in the distance, as if
signaling Dawson to swim toward him. Dawson struck out in
that direction, fighting the ocean waves, exhausted and dizzy.
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