Well done to all the vessels who aided in the rescue of the sailors. Slow hand-clap for the people of Vanuatu who ransacked the stranded yacht.

amazing footage thanks for uploading

Haunting stuff. The heart sinks at the thought of the fine and kind people on Quartermaster.

Thank you so much!!! I've been reading the book twice or even three times a long while ago, but a book is a book and real pictures are something else. Thank you again!

Wherever i am in the world, on whichever sea or ocean......i think about the quartermaster. For some reason the loss of that family - unknown to me personaly, stays with me always.❤

A depression becomes classed as a cyclone or hurricane when winds exceed 75mph, 80kts or 120km/h. Being in the winter months, that was one nasty storm and maybe as well been a category 1 Cyclone

Very reminiscent of the Fastnet disaster.

Imagine being the interviewer trying to keep a straight face whilst interviewing the lady from Heartlight 😂 i would have been eating myself trying not to burst out laughing 😳😵‍💫😆

Amazing waves that can actually lift a cargo ship weighing 3million lbs , 100-150 ft up in the air - then consider a 35ft/20k lbs boat being in that condition..

i think shes had too many sea biscuits omg wako tabacco

Thank you. That was super helpful. I just completed my first hand sewn sail slider.

Fantastic stories and view from the actual sailors and the view from the rescuers. Very professional saying pan pan pan 90 knots wind storm force 9. After being rolled several times then silence when their mast has been broken off or bent around their hulls their radio antennas in the water. Then EPIRB's one after another going off in total silence you know the situation is very serious. One crew was lost I believe. Such courage.

I was in a tropical cyclone in gulf of Thailand things were not good we shouldnt have gone out ....the white wave that hit us broadside was when i knew it was it.....we survided but what a sight looking at a 10 metre white wash hell.

Divianna stealing the show telling he kids not to worry about drowning because it's 'Just like going back it to the womb' lol!

So sad that the HMNZS Monowai was decommissioned in 1997

jeez can’t imagine having broken bones and being thrown around by the waves for hours. i just got in an accident when a car swerved into my bike and caused me to go over the handle bars, hit my head on a parked car on my right resulting in a concussion and my right knee went into the concrete. no broken bones but my knee swelled to double it’s size. was taking 4 tylenol every 6 hours or so and it barely dulled the pain. so i know that one and a half tylenol wasn’t doing a damn thing for that guy with the broken leg. the captain of the tuikakau was awesome. he has an entertaining way of telling the story.

Anyone watching in 2024 thinking the clairvoyant lady is giving Moira Rose?

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One of the best documentaries ever made. - V

I’m here because of sailing parlay 😂

Seen it before over and over and over and over

The Americans stole the show.

ExtrordinaryQ

Awesome video !!

I about spit my soda when they said they never steer at sea. Autopilot only. Wtf

@1:28:28 He speaks of another strange white light but neglect to elaborate. Well if your a Jesus believing Christian that is saved again, the balls of white light are throughout the Bible! God was there in those stormy seas protecting all of you. I hope we made some new members of the FAM after that disaster. They sure seemed quite heart broken over losing their boats despite not their lives, c'mon mate's, you can always get another boat. ⛵

What was the big bright white light they saw? They just seemed to skip over what that actually was or I missed it but I've been listening intensely?

We all must try to understand that anyone that goes to sea must take not only the weather forecasts, their chosen boats ability but most important the captain and crews ability to take on a angry furious storm all with a humble grains of salt. Any beautiful day on land or sea can turn bitterly dangerous. Especially at sea where aid of rescuing is absolutely the most difficult and sometimes not available. That is a real factoid. One must truly consider this before buying a boat while listening to boat show sells person lying and telling them they do not have to worry about weather because with technology and their boats top sailing speed they can outrun any storm. I am calling BS on this sales pitch. These people have their profit as their #1 goal over you and your loves lives. With Sail boats heavy to heavy-moderate displacement designed for whitewater oceans voyaging is critical in surviving the fury of storms and crashing waves. I will choose a boat base on safety and ability to handle what the ocean can pitch my way over interior ball room layout modern designed that are in fact designed for weekend worriers coastal cruising. I am not saying a modern race hull cruising boat or a catamaran or trimaran can not cross ocean or sail another the world at all. it is just one who chooses these hull designs have to accept the higher risk to them and their love ones plus always keep an eye over their should for the next gale. That to me adds a constant stress and takes the fun out of sailing. There is enough to do already why complicate your voyage even further. Jim Rodgers

Today everyone would die without their computers.

Why some sailors decided to sink the boat?They could have locate it later

Diviana is an absolute space cadet

Her catamaran is a vortex beacon for the etherian ships to home in upon for years to come?! Maybe those comments are a homing beacon for a thorazine prescription?

where did you heng the cables of the lazybag?

68 years old, and I have rebuilt my Westerleigh, 33 catch? I’ll sell quite a few miles in her she’s my home … I feel for these people so much to lose somebody like that would break my heart💙

The strong centred women in this are inspirational ….the beautiful woman in purple ( Davinana ) who speaks of counselling her children about going back into the saltwater womb …wow !

Is this type of situation less likely to happen now with today’s technology? Like predictwind?

Great this is quite useful encouragement to check the forecast and stay in sight of the coast on my 17 ft mini yacht. No trans Antics.

How does the sail attach to the boom?

What a bunch of amazing, exalted, and rare breed of people those search-and-rescue people are! Not to mention the merchant mariners who immediately stop their commercial duties and put their own lives on the line! Humankind at its finest...

Interesting that the catamaran didn‘t capsize. I thought in a survival situation your are safer on a monohull. But it seems i am wrong.

The sea is so strong for those blokes in the really big ship couldnt imagine being in a tiny little boats. Those blokes on that big ships, did they even sleep for those 5+days? Bloody legends true hero's. ❤❤❤❤

Awesome documentary. I would have loved for the people who made it to have told their story.

Why do sailors, go on trips like this, knowing that things like depicted here, are possible? Why do other people with no relation to them risk life and limb to save them when such things happen? I am not sure I know. But I am glad they do.

Destiny well built yarth

Like a great movie, very entertaining. Could have done without the new-age …….

GOD BLESS THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA

the new age mystic nonsense is beyond annoying

Some claim a deck stepped mast is safer in these storms as the mast typically completely breaks away. If it doesn’t, lock cutters can be used to cut the remaining rigging.

Ummmm well I dont think that clairvoyants voyant is very clair . Obviously she didnt see this coming. If I was her husband I'd want a refund

Thanks Phil. I luckily was delayed in Aukland on route to Tonga when the Fiji race got caught in a BOM. 2005.