Hurricane Sandy Was Coming. This Ship Set Sail.

Hurricane Sandy was moving north when the Bounty left Connecticut with sixteen people aboard. Days later, her crew were struggling to escape their own ship in darkness, far off Cape Hatteras. The true story of Bounty’s final voyage: the decision to sail, the fight to keep water out, and the Coast Guard crews who brought fourteen people to safety. Told through authentic rescue footage, photographs, forecasts and official investigations. Human Against — extraordinary true stories, exceptionally told. Subscribe for more. CHAPTERS 0:00 A decision in port 0:31 The ship and her crew 1:10 The choice to sail 2:07 Towards the storm 3:02 The pumps could not keep up 4:15 Calling for help 5:10 Into the water 6:02 One person at a time 6:56 Two lives lost 7:15 What the investigation found 7:50 The last voyage SOURCES NTSB, Sinking of Tall Ship Bounty, Marine Accident Brief MAB-14/03 (2014): https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/A... U.S. Coast Guard investigation: https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/DC... Public copy: https://www.sailingscuttlebutt.com/wp... Coast Guard rescue releases and footage, Air Station Elizabeth City: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/159583... https://www.dvidshub.net/video/289338... Coast Guard retrospective and Dan Todd’s recollection: https://www.mycg.uscg.mil/News/Articl... NOAA/National Hurricane Center, historical Sandy forecasts: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2012... Coast Guard, recognition of the rescue crews, 26 June 2013: https://www.dvidshub.net/news/109300/... VISUAL CREDITS Coast Guard footage: Air Station Elizabeth City / DVIDS; Brandyn Hill credited on the short compilation. Photographs: PA2 Alan Haraf (2003 ship), Lt. Zach Huff (survivor arrival), PO1 Brandyn Hill (Todd’s 2013 award), PO2 Tim Kuklewski (foundering ship), PO3 David Weydert (rescue crews), and U.S. Coast Guard (waterlogged ship). https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1074436 https://www.dvidshub.net/image/1123989 https://www.dvidshub.net/image/961485 https://nationalcoastguardmuseum.org/... Bounty II, Halifax Harbour, 23 July 2012 — Gavin Langille / gLangille, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped/resized for this documentary. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... 26 October satellite image: NASA / LANCE MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... 28 October satellite image: NASA Earth Observatory / Robert Simmon; NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science team data. https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... Forecasts: NOAA/National Hurricane Center. Report text: NTSB. Earlier ship photographs and later award/team images are identified in context. Satellite images and forecasts are not reconstructions of the rescue. No ownership is claimed over government source material. PRODUCTION NOTE Original research synthesis, script, narration direction, score, sound design and editing. Narration is synthetic, locally generated with Kokoro’s af_heart voice; it does not impersonate an eyewitness. Dan Todd’s greeting is quoted from a later Coast Guard account, not played as original rescue radio. Archival footage is muted; environmental sound is original sound design. Independent documentary. The appearance of U.S. Department of War (DoW) visual information does not imply or constitute DoW endorsement. U.S. Coast Guard material does not imply Coast Guard endorsement. No NASA, photographer or other source endorsement is implied. #Bounty #HurricaneSandy #TrueStories