Gone to Drift and the Tragedy of the Snowboy

Diana McCaulay’s latest novel – Gone to Drift – delves into an under reported aspect of Jamaican life: the vulnerability of the country’s fishers and the many who have gone adrift over the years, some never to return.

The book will be discussed extensively this Thursday during the Bookclub segment – Bookworms – on RJR’s Beyond the Headlines, hosted by Dionne Jackson Miller.

One major tragedy recalled in the novel was that of the Snowboy, a fishing boat that sank en route to the Petro Cays from Kingston in July, 1963. On board were at least 40 men, many of them from the close-knit village of Treasure Beach in St. Elizabeth.

Click on the audio icon above to access Earl Moxam’s special report on the tragedy of the Snowboy, first aired on Beyond the Headlines in 2013.