Deep Water 2006 Part 3

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race, and the psychological toll it took on its competitors. Sponsored by the Sunday Times of London, the much-ballyhooed event attracted a field of nine, including amateur sailor Donald Crowhurst, who set out to circumnavigate the globe in late 1968. Battling treacherous seas and his own demons, Crowhurst almost immediately comes apart as he faces the isolation of nine months on the high seas. Part adventure yarn and part metaphysical mystery, DEEP WATER is an unforgettable journey into one mans heart of darkness.

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Film & Animation

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• Deep
• Water
• Donald
• Crowhurst
• Sunday
• Times
• Madness
• round-the-world
• boat
• race

[alexander211974]

thanx for posting this

[macmuhnpro]

My heart broke @ 7:30...

[blagit23]

@homemadecandy Got it now. Thanks a load

[homemadecandy]

@blagit23 The song is called She Left Home by Djamel Ben Yelles.

[caroleastrid]

Yes, a really heart breaking adventure. The sponsors were more lethal than the other sharks... The tough guys from the media and finance, they knew it but pressed him.. .. This fatal journey (that of any life in fact) makes me cry.. and Stanley Best standing there..knowing that it was ..doomed,and thinking of his money only...There were so many signs that were like warnings.. yet we all know we will disappear into oblivion sooner or later... this is why this documentary isparticularly touching.

[blagit23]

@krakenwave

Thanks 4 that, ill check it up

[krakenwave]

@blagit23

From various books and articles on the subject - I don't know how much of Crowhurst's biographical info is available online but there have been severl books on the the race and 1 or 2 of them went quite deep into Crowhurst's background. The latest book on the subject (this about all the participants) is "A race Too Far" by Chris Eakin (2007) and its excellent. It also makes public what really happened to Nigel Tetley :(

[blagit23]

@krakenwave its a sad and amazing story but had he been asked to leave the army ? how do u know that ?

[blagit23]

@TheMaxPeck .. did u ever find out the name of the song ? its a nice one ! id like t know it 2..

[drifter105]

@TheMaxPeck wish i knew

[TheMaxPeck]

Do you happen to know the title of the music at 09:00 ?

[MrBazzabee]

@ Dear krakenwave UR obviously SO right about the times in which he did this !! These days he would still have been (initially) financially ruined and may have been in trouble with the law 4 a short while. BUT he would have recovered well,these days,both financially.THE BOOK..THE INTERVIEWS !.and his integrity and esteem would have risen as a derring-do British celeb chancer of all things Corinthian through TV, but more importantly he would not have lost his LOVING and LOYAL family or them him!!

[krakenwave]

@lexo30

But also total financial ruin (his business was in the toilet even b4 this) at a time when no one but the 'lowest working classes' asked for state benefits (and no generous bankruptcy provision like USA to wipe slate clean) - this was the true problem of a man who failed everything thus far ("asked to leave" RFA training, failed the army) except have a loving family. IMO it was them rather than his creditors that he - paradoxically - just could not face.

[macmuhnpro]

Lol, but you're so right!!

[lexo30]

Oops. Spoiler alert. :-)

[macmuhnpro]

@lexo30 You tell the story at part 3?!!?! LOL!

[avidalocan]

Times were different then - you stood or fell with your integrity. That's over now largely. He would have had to admit that he tried to defraud the race, after errors in his fake logbook were revealed. And if he conceded that he attempted fraud, he would have been ruined anyway, with all the publicity attached to the event. He could have sank the boat and called for help, so I guess he had gone somewhat mad as is usually claimed about him, as he appeared not to have considered this option.