Delfin
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Keith wrote:
"They were fine until their generator failed, and the pumps couldn't keep up with the water ingress."
Murphy's Law, First Corollary. "If it can happen, then it will. If it can't, it will anyway."
From a former crew member of the Bounty:
Marc Castells
5:57pm Oct 29
I don't think what led the Bounty to be there is a mystery. They were very open on their FB page about their decision to put to sea to ride out the storm because it is safer for the boat than being at port. It's obviously not safer for the crew to be at sea, and it's decisions like this that led me and my friend to get off the boat when she stopped for repairs in Bermuda after similar conditions and similar equipment failure, instead of continuing on to Puerto Rico. Luckily they were able to get replacement parts overnighted to Bermuda, because otherwise they would have made the decision to continue on with both bilge pumps broken (probably for the same reason they broke this time), and an empty fire extinguisher on the wall of the engine room, from when one of the crew put out a fire without even bothering to wake anyone or let the helmsman at the time (me) know about it... Sad to be proved right sometimes. RIP Claudene, and good luck Robin. As much as I disagree with him, I think he's a good guy and a survivor.