As October brings the approach of another North Atlantic storm season, my thoughts turn to the story of The Perfect Storm. I’ve never read the book of the same name by Sebastian Junger, nor seen the 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, but I had an idea of the plot. What I hadn’t realised was that the story was based on a real storm that caused havoc along the eastern seaboard of Canada and the United States at the end of October and beginning of November 1991.
