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It had been one of the strangest sights the Coast Safeguard pilots had ever seen: a tall-masted wooden ship, the type that sailed centuries back, capsizing in the breeze and towering waves of Hurricane Sandy off of the coast of NEW YORK. It looked like something out of your movie - and, in a way, it was. The dispatch was the Bounty, a fake of a English vendor vessel of the same name whose crew famously mutinied in 1789. She have been built for a Marlon Brando film in the 1960s - and today she was sinking, her 16-person crew fleeing into the sea amid the splintered hardwood and torn canvas. Was the Bounty's sinking - which still left her captain absent and one of her crew members useless - an inevitable tragedy? Or was it the problem of a captain who was simply willing to risk everything to save lots of the dispatch he loved? Attracting on exclusive interviews with Bounty survivors and Seacoast Safeguard rescuers, journalist Matthew Shaer reconstructs the ship's final voyage and the Seacoast Guard analysis into her sinking that adopted, uncovering a riveting report of heroism and hubris in the attention of your hurricane.
