Reckless Decisions: The Tragic Loss of Tall Ship Bounty

The HMS Bounty Replica Tall Ship was lost in Hurricane Sandy off the coast near Cape Hatteras, NC on Monday October 29, 2012. A story of EL Faro-esque negligence, hubris and a blatant disregard for the power of nature.

Oceanliner Designs Team
Producer - Mike Brady
Visual Effects - Jack Gibson
3D model assistance - Liam Sharpe

*Views presented are my own and the appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), NTSB & any other entities' visual information does not imply nor constitute their endorsement.

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▶Timestamps:
00:00 Opening
01:43 The Replica HMS Bounty History & Mutiny
03:51 Modern Tall Ship Bounty Specifications
12:10 Bounty Goes Up For Sale - Issues Start to Show
15:40 Sep-Oct Boothbay Drydock Period Exposes Major Issues
18:05 New London & Groton Visit with Looming Hurricane Warnings
22:15 Bounty Underway - On Shore Personnel Post FB Updates in near Real-Time
27:60 Sat AM Oct 27th - Captain Turns Toward Hurricane Sandy
31:00 Hurricane Sandy Punishes the Tall Ship Bounty - Dewatering Issues
39:05 US Coast Guard Sector North Carolina Launches C-130 into Hurricane
47:36 US Coast Guard Launches 3 MH-60 Jayhawk Rescue Units
50:11 USCG & NTSB Findings & Conclusions
1:08:12 US Coast Guard Recommendations & Lessons Learned
1:12:00 Legal Aftermath and Closing Thoughts
1:13:15 In Memoriam...
1:13:28 End Credits

Your Safety Matters. -Sam

#Maritime #Hurricane #YourSafetyMatters

[Biggus_Mickus]

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!

[abrandenburg]

"A ship is safer at sea than in port"

Narrator: "they were in fact, not safer at Sea"

[FlightMate]

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.

[daedalus_v]

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.

[MissJediMouse]

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!

[corvinredacted]

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

[RagingMoon]

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

[bo]

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.

[ianmacfarlane]

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.

[don_]

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.

[ZGryphon]

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."

[mwal]

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

[crow-bl]

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

[usaturnuranus]

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

[L.J.McEachern]

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.

[Balrog-tfbg]

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

[soyevquirsefron]

39:49 “the filters you got were the wrong filters” the captain takes the time to throw shade at the guy on shore like that’s the root of the problem.

[Paul_Wetor]

One crew member said before leaving, "It's only a superstorm." I read that somewhere and thought, "You idiot. That doesn't mean it's less than a hurricane, it means that Sandy is so big that 'hurricane' doesn't accurately describe it."

[nwvfd]

" Keep in mind, the Coast Guard's findings and lessons learned tend to be formatted quite differently... and the Coast Guard can be a bit less, diplomatic, in their wording." The first five personnel points end with " This constitutes negligence."

'Less diplomatic'... no kidding Sam.

[seppo]

He’s more than a legend! He’s our friend, Mike Brady, from Oceanliner Designs.

I love this collaboration so I hope there are more in the future. I loved learning about the technical side of these old ships. In elementary school I spent a night on the CA Thayer. It was really memorable.