[Public-List] "The Perfect Storm"

[Jonathan Bresler]

“He’s written his own book, and has a website on the story.“

Gord,
You’re leaving us hanging.  What’s the name of the book?
Jonathan

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:50 PM Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Hello Gang…
>
> I’m home from the office and re-watching ‘The Perfect Storm’ while having
> lunch… two things about that film that bugged me when I first saw it are
> still bugging me.
>
> 1. The Flemish Cap.
>
> A huge plot line in the movie, and according to the book (which I’ve read)
> in the real story, is the issue of being so far from Gloucester, out on the
> Flemish Cap… and the loss of their ice making machine meaning they had to
> try to rush back before they lost their bumper haul of fish.  Then when
> they know the storm is coming… their distance out is depicted as an issue
> of great peril.
>
> Well, I have to wonder why they never seem to have even considered putting
> in to St John’s Newfoundland.  They’d have been there in a day or so at 10
> knots… it’s actually on the way home for them, particularly because they
> were already on their way back when the issues developed.  They would have
> found more services there than at home in Gloucester… and wouldn’t have had
> to face the storm at all.  Why didn’t they go there?  They could have,
> easily.
>
> 2. The Yacht Story.
>
> The yacht disaster component of this film, and the book as well, is
> dramatically misrepresented.  The owner/skipper wasn’t a fool, as shown and
> written… the problem was the two inexperienced crew members he had aboard
> who panicked and sent an unauthorized mayday call to the USCG.  And because
> the USCG was called out, and forced the abandonment of the fully seaworthy
> yacht, the men from the helicopter died after it fell into the sea after
> running out of fuel.  Brave men, but basically murdered by the circumstance
> created by the needless mayday that they were responding to.   The yacht
> was later recovered in fine condition.  The owner was furious with the USCG
> for forcing him to abandon it, thereby exposing the rescuers, himself and
> his crew to needless peril.  He’s written his own book, and has a website
> on the story.
>
> Anyone else had these thoughts?
>
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
> #426 Surprise
>
>
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Jonathan M Bresler
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