1978 Boat Race remembered 30 years later (Cambridge sinking)

3 members of the 1978 Cambridge crew remember the Oxford Cambridge Boat Race
The conditions by the Bandstand were very bad, meaning they took on a lot of water and sank just through Barnes Bridge
Shown on the ITV before the 2008 boat race and kept on a disk for 15 years by Nat Upton

[@mrgobrien]

grandstand ended with the being shown again - my brother in law stated a rather obvious reason why it happened - everybody carried on rowing instead of one or more of them deciding to bail out the water - but i suppose that is rowing for you.

[@basilguts1786]

Who won?

[@expatexpat6531]

They might have been hospitalized if they'd sank yesterday.

[@lucas1984]

The Thames was in even worse condition back then. Untreated sewage spilled into it.

[@kevindunham3669]

​@@lucas1984I was rowing everyday then on the tideway don't see the problem really should have gone under the middlesex bank out of the wind I was standing by the outlet after Barnes Bridge

[@strongbow310]

Compare this to lifeboats crews

[@strongbow310]

Oh yar hahahah

[@strongbow310]

Oh gosh hahahh

[@strongbow310]

Oh gosh Lmao

[@strongbow310]

Bullshit