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Shipwrecked Family

posted 4 years ago by wanton87 (934)
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I’m currently working my way through this series, though I’ve seen a few of the episodes during its original run.

In this episode, the Silverwood family is on a global sailing voyage. While out in the middle of no where, in the south pacific, they bottom out on a coral reef, and take on heavy water. The waves are ferocious, and will eventually wash the damaged ship off of the reef, and sink it. They need to get in the life raft, but one particularly heavy wave causes the main mast (80’ tall, and weighing 2500lbs) to come crashing down on the father’s leg, basically snapping it like a tooth pick, and pinning him down. It’s a miracle, that with the blood loss, and hypothermia combined, that he even survived.

I’ve come to the conclusion that if I ever take up sailing, I’m sticking to land locked bodies of water.

[–] joej2923 (2959) 4 years ago

I went on a sailboat a few years ago and we just sailed around the bay. Saiboats are a money pit and the guy who owned it didn't spend the money to maintain it so nothing worked. We had to drink cold coffee because the stove was down and the toilet failed. After watching this show, I will never go on an ocean/sea sailboat trip.

[–] wanton87 (934) 4 years ago

Same here. Nothing is more terrifying to me, than being stranded out in the ocean. But for the rare individual, that is at peace with oceanic voyaging, I suppose that it provides a type of freedom that is unparalleled. Not for me though. I’m more of a wilderness sorta dude. Still dangerous for the unprepared, but better odds of survival.

There’s 3 or 4 of these shipwrecked episodes in this series. And after watching a few of them, it was a miracle that any of the victims survived.

[–] joej2923 (2959) 4 years ago

I have a lifelong fear of sharks so treading water in the ocean would be the worst for me. Getting stranded on a mountain is a close second due to the frostbite. A guy told me about losing his toes on Everest expeditions and that made me lose interest in mountain climbing.

I enjoyed the 76 Days Adrift episode from season four since a guy survived for 76 days in a liferaft. He used these devices to convert salt water to potable water and he was able to catch fish. There was one moment when a shark attacked the liferaft and a puncture developed. I remember one episode where they tried to get the liferaft but they couldn't release it.

[–] wanton87 (934) 4 years ago

The movie Jaws certainly didn’t do those of us suffering from Selachophobia any favors, now did it :D

I thought I posted here before, on that 76 days adrift episode, but it must have been somewhere else. Yeah, those floating solar distillation stills really saved that dude’s bacon. There’s probably another episode that I missed, but I believe that it was also this episode, in which the guy was barely able to get his life raft to inflate; this as his ship was taking on heavy water! This episode should be required viewing, for anyone that’s considering venturing out to sea 😲