Reckless Decisions: The Tragic Loss of Tall Ship Bounty

Tall Ship Bounty Episode 1 by Oceanliner Designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UfRzfN-W_g "Your Safety Matters" Merch! www.brickimmortar.com/shop Brick Immortar Patreon: www.patreon.com/BrickImmortar

There's ten feet of water below decks, all 3 masts have fallen off, we're on fire, being strafed by Stukas, the Red October is torpedoing us and a Kraken is eating the stern. The ship is FINE!

"A ship is safer at sea than in port" Narrator: "they were in fact, not safer at Sea"

If only the crew of the Bounty would have conspired to move the captain from his position.

24:32 Sailors 200 years ago lived in fear of the real possibility of a hurricane appearing over the horizon with zero warning. I can only imagine at how gobsmacked they’d be to see the decisions made by someone with access to a fucking live satellite feed!

Sail a rotten, leaky wooden ship, with an inexperienced crew and out of service comms, into a hurricane. Take in water, lose power, sleep in soaked beds. Crew gets exhausted and hurt. Pumps fail. Water gets waist high in engine room. Send emails downlaying the situation. Refuse to abandon ship. That captain was in such denial that he completely ignored the danger.

39:55 If "the boat is doing great," but you "can't de-water" when you're actively taking on water inside of a hurricane... the ship is not doing great. It is the opposite of doing great.

Talk about irony. The first Bounty's crew should never have mutinied, and would almost certainly have been ultimately better off if they had stayed with the vessel and completed their voyage. The second Bounty's crew should definitely have walked away from the proposed voyage when given the opportunity before departure, and would have been ultimately better off for doing so, and indeed saved the skipper's own life.

Well, all things considered, I think Captain Third Rank Yevgeni Bonovia, executive officer of the Soviet submarine V.K. Konovalov, said it best: "You arrogant ass, you've killed us."

The Captain's irresponsibility, carelessness, and incompetence were off the charts!

Why would ANYONE deliberately sail a 60 year old replica wooden ship into a hurricane?

Can't believe the Capt made a succession of too late decisions. Also can't believe that he had time to throw shade at the on shore Association member for getting the wrong fuel filters.

This situation was so avoidable at so many points. The loss of the Bounty might be the most avoidable tragedy that's been covered on this channel, and that's saying something.

"We're going to stay here until it's not safe to be here," is a wild safety plan.

The skipper is still trying to send the last email as we're watching.

Massive respect to USCG rescue teams, especially the swimmers. Best of the best.

Bounty and El Faro remind me so much of each other. Aging ship, violent storm, irresponsible captain. Both ships had all three.

Hearing the captain's initial plan to sail east of the storm I thought ok, sounds reasonable enough. Must've still gotten too close and swept up in the storm. Unfortunate but the decision isn't completely divorced from reality. Listening to the emails about him thinking of trying to sail along the west side: whispering don't... NHC downgrading Sandy to tropical storm: DON'T Bounty captain starts sailing west: NO NO NO STOP WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? I could understand if the accident had happened when they were trying to avoid it sailing east but trying to skirt around it to the west is just reckless negligence in the highest order. It's infuriating that he got somebody else killed for his carelessness, should've only been him paying for his recklessness.

This video is the representation, "Oh, it gets worse." I don't think incompetent is a strong enough word to describe the actions of the captain. The amount of hubris displayed in this incident is off the charts.

I am amazed such a cowboy of a sea captain managed to live that long, and his actions only cost the life of one other