The reef

[Fergus]

Anyone watching? Ridiculous! No yacht would turn turtle without a keel in calm water!!

 

[Bobc]

Not even a Bavaria? (he ducks and runs)

 

[Giblets]

Ridiculous! No yacht would turn turtle without a keel in calm water!!

Ask Simon LeBonn that question!

 

[armchairsailor]

I doubt it was calm when Drum flipped. Still, keel hit reef, pushes boat to one side...? Maybe...? Don't konw the circumstances of the story behind it.

 

[epervier]

Get a grip, It's a movie, they can make anything happen

 

[[70521]]

Get a grip, It's a movie, they do make anything happen

Corrected.

 

[epervier]

I stand corrected

Although it could have been,............."can and do"

 

[Slowtack]

Why did the dinghy disappear?

 

[Stork_III]

Why did the dinghy disappear?

Damaged on the reef going back to the boat early in the film.

 

[Slowtack]

ah missed that bit

 

[Greenheart]

Surely only one chamber of the inflatable was punctured? It looked that way to me. And did the yacht not have a liferaft? No lifejackets aboard? No jerrycans?

When they were still sitting on the upturned hull, couldn't they have fairly easily retrieved 5000 Newtons' worth of floating objects from the cabin, enough to make a raft?

It was all strikingly reminiscent of Adrift, in that a lot of youngish twits were too busy screeching to think, and too obnoxious to feel much sympathy for.

Just the same, it was probably more entertaining than Jaws 3, broadcast at the same time on another channel.

When I was in Australia, (this century) my girlfriend always expressed land-distances in kilometers. Do Aussie sailors revert to imperial measurements?

 

[wazza]

When I was in Australia, (this century) my girlfriend always expressed land-distances in kilometers. Do Aussie sailors revert to imperial measurements?

Here in Sweden everything is in metric but for the distances & speed over water. Then nautical miles & knots are used....

 

[Trop Cher]

Just the same, it was probably more entertaining than Jaws 3, broadcast at the same time on another channel.

Funnily enough, while I was watching the film I thought this could be so much better if they'd used the "Jaws music" at the appropriate times! Is any other film so easily associated with it's music?

 

[Seven Spades]

What channel was it on, I never saw it on the listings?

 

[neale]

Based, very loosely it seems, on a true story. Google Ray Boundy for more info. Why they didn't make the film about the actual event I don't know especially the events surrounding the young deckhand who, after losing a leg to the shark, swam in the opposite direction to try and lure the shark away from his shipmates.