Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
The only reason I have chosen to share this feature is that besides being an interesting story, there are many lessons to learn.
The author wrote: “The fear of imminent death is no picnic, but add to it the prospect of a violent death, one of crunching boats, drowning in swirling water and blackness, being dragged under hundreds of feet of rusty hull, and then chopped up by a 30-foot propeller. And add the element of mass. There is something more frightening about being run over by a bus than a Volkswagen, even though both can have the same effect. The ship was the size of a city and its bow wave towered over our decks. It felt like a looming natural disaster, like an earthquake or a tsunami; it didn’t seem like human beings could be behind it.”
Their experience was absolutely frightening, with the feature highlighting some of the “don’t do” things in an emergency situation.
READ IT ALL HERE: Pages from 2007 03 – behemoth – – SAILING Magazine – OCR
