This will make the hair stand up on your head, I promise. It will also make you stop and think seriously about what it means to captain a vessel. An amazing interactive timeline of the final days of the Bounty. More thrills and chills than all Tom Cruise's Mission Impossble flicks put together (if you're a sailor).
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/111092/Final-Days-of-Bounty/#vars!date=2012-10-25_09:00:00!
Wow this is truly amazing to follow! I can't understand the captain's thinking, with so many issues at hand. Thanks for sharing!
Dale
That is rather sobering reading.
mel
Very eerie...what a maniac...
bob23
How interesting!
You would think a professional captain would posess a great deal better judgement than this, and would pride himself on providing safe passage at any cost. I guess not. Pride goeth before the fall!
Any which way you take it, this is a tragic incident. I have heard all the speculations and the second guesses. It all boils down to the fact that we lost a treasure when HMS Bounty went down.
I have been aboard her twice. Each time it was very cool. There is something very special to a sailor when it comes to tall ships. They are simply amazing.
What a loss!
Agreed.
I live in New London county, and saw the ship just prior to its final voyage. A real beauty!
Simply tragic - both ship and life.
Thanks for posting that. I've often wondered if there was a hearing.
Linda and I trained for six weeks to be on the crew of the HMS Bounty when it was in St Petersburg. We and a much larger crew sailed her on Tampa Bay. Knowing how much effort is needed to sail in perfect conditions its hard to imagine what it was like in a hurricane. Very important lessons in decision making here especially for those of us who sail the sea