Bounty timeline - amazing

[wes]

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!

[Cruzin]

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

[kahpho]

That is rather sobering reading.

mel

[Bob23]

Very eerie...what a maniac...
bob23

[Salty19]

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!

[HeaveToo]

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!

[Harrier]

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.

[HideAway]

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