My gut tells me the Captain went down with the ship...perhaps on purpose?
Given earler decision, results and heritage...
David F. Risch
(401) 419-4650 cell
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From: Joel Aronson <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:07:44
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Stus-List Bounty sinking today
One more crewmember was rescued. The captain is still missing.
Joel
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On Oct 29, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Steve Sharkey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
Interesting that this says that these are Sandy's first victims. Here's an
article talking about the 69 killed in the Caribbean.
http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/News/hurricane-sandy-leaves-destruction-wake/story?id=17588956#.UI8LHcXR67E
From: Richard Davis <mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 6:35 PM
To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ; [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Stus-List Bounty sinking today
Bounty Sinks off Cape Hatteras
October 29, 2012 - Atlantic Ocean
As the East Coast battens down the hatches in preparation for Hurricane Sandy,
the Category 1 hurricane may have claimed her first victims. The captain and
one crewmember from the tall ship Bounty, a replica of the original HMS Bounty
built in 1960 for the Marlon Brando film Mutiny on the Bounty, are missing
after the crew abandoned ship early this morning off North Carolina's Outer
Banks, just 160 miles from the center of Sandy. The remaining 14 crewmembers
were rescued by USCG helos this morning.
<http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/img_lectronic_432/2012-10-29_1050_bounty.jpg>
The last report from Bounty occurred just 20 minutes before the Captain
reported the ship was sinking.
© 2012 SailWX
Last night Captain Robin Walbridge called the owners of the ship to report the
ship had lost power and the crew were unable to keep up with the inflow of
water. At 4:30 a.m., he ordered the crew to abandon ship to two liferafts and
activated the ship's EPIRB. As Bounty was sinking in 40-knot winds and 18-ft
seas, three crewmembers reportedly didn't make it into the rafts. One managed
to swim to a raft, while the other two - Capt. Walbridge and newest crewmember
Claudine Christian (reported to be a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian) -
were swept away. Both are wearing survival suits, and the Coast Guard is
continuing to search today. Bounty has since sunk.
<http://www.latitude38.com/lectronic/img_lectronic_799orless/2012-10-29_9545_bounty2.jpg>
Raw video from the rescue shows the crewmembers wearing survival suits. The two
missing crewmembers were reportedly wearing such suits. They and their families
are in our thoughts.
© 2012 USCG
Though the 180-ft, three-masted square-rigger (technically a full-rigged ship)
was destined to be a film set, she was built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, to the
original HMS Bounty's drawings - her length was doubled and tonnage increased -
using traditional methods. She was also featured in two Pirates of the
Caribbeanfilms: Dead Man's Chest and At World's End. Currently owned by HMS
Bounty Organization LLC, the ship underwent a $3 million refit in '07, and had
just been in drydock for maintenance. Bounty left New London, Connecticut, on
October 25 bound for her winter home in St. Petersburg, Florida.
- latitude / ladonna
<http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&pubid=ra-4e4aa65e5df23d35>
Richard Davis
Skycatcher, C&C 38-3
Channel Islands Harbor, Oxnard
On Oct 29, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Wally Bryant <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
I wonder if this link is of the rescue:
<http://www.weather.com/news/weather-hurricanes/sandy-top-five-20121028>
There's no commentary, but the folks are wearing full survival suits.
You're right, if the owner of the boat forced them to put to sea on that course
in this weather, he should pay for the rescue, families of victims, and then
spend some time with the general prison population.
Richard Walter wrote:
Because St. Petersburg, FL is (was!) a paid appearance. These vessels operate
on appearance fees. That said, this decision was negligence bordering on
criminal. If the missing crew members are lost, there will be jail time.
--
s/v Stella Blue
www.wbryant.com <http://www.wbryant.com>
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