# Be Like the Sea

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- Authors: [Marie Gleeson](https://www.bookquiver.com/marie-gleeson)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-05-28
- Genres: Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

‘The one thing you can’t fully control in a ship is the water all around you, so part of your plan is always reading and analysing the currents and the tides. You have a clear image in your head of how you think the ship will perform in the prevailing conditions. But this time something isn't going the way we had planned it …’As a farmer’s daughter in the country’s largest landlocked county, Marie Gleeson’s unusual career choice took her into uncharted waters. Working her way up from gruelling bootcamp training to leading a drug interdiction operation seizing €700 million of cocaine from a yacht off the Kerry coast, she was a leader among men and rose to every challenge. Developing a love of the sea, Marie learned that to be at one with it required agility, and a willingness to change, to go with the wind – not against it. These lessons prepared her for operating without a life raft when her personal life threw her the greatest challenge of all. Be Like the Sea is the inspiring story of what happens when we overcome our own self-imposed physical, mental and emotional limitations, and a blueprint for charting our own unique path in life.

## Editions

### Be Like the Sea

- Publisher: Gill Books
- ISBN: 978-18-0458-449-1
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2026-05-28
- Language: en_US