The Story of the Blythe Star | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror

[@jeremyt2212]

Imagine surviving such an ordeal just to get home and learn that your own funeral had already been held in your absence. Unreal.

[@Dulcimertunes]

Tom Sawyer

[@johnr797]

"Was Bill there?" "He said he was busy." "Oh WTF Bill??"

[@gnarthdarkanen7464]

Imagine the excited overflow of joy rising up as you see a REAL TRUCK on the road, and you can really approach it for help... beaten, scabby, nasty, weak, and more than half naked... ONLY to be told to your face, "Nah, mate... Those guys are dead. Search was called off days ago. You can't be them!" ...as if the driver's legit' ABOUT TO START THE ENGINE AND LEAVE YOU THERE!!! Just sit for a moment, and take a notion of "crushing disappointment"... ;o)

[@turkeysamwich00]

and that man's name was Joseph Joestar

[@momtammy3563]

I'd want to see the video, if available.

[@ejthedhampir507]

As an Aussie, I’m stunned I didn’t know about this. May the men who died rest in peace. They made our country a better place.

[@RachelEvans680]

Me too .. I'm hearing this for the first time and I'm amazed that,at 58 years old in Australia,I didn't know about this...

[@patrickglaser1560]

How can they drown in the land of the upside down?

[@Dani-Louise]

@@patrickglaser1560Head first?

[@imacdonald99]

Me too

[@pamelacooke489]

Same here!

[@actionjackson3522]

Given that no one knew where they were and that the search was called off already, it is *incredible* that 7 of the crew survived!

[@wrosebrock]

As they say, never give up. You never know what tomorrow may bring

[@CrazyTreehuggingElf]

One a more depressing note, I wonder how many shipwreck survivors had perished before this particular group of people managed to save themselves on their own. Best not to think about it.

[@LoveLexi23]

As an Aussie (and long time follower of your channel) I have to say I am surprised that I have never heard this event! Thank you for sharing it.

[@sweetistweeter]

I don't know, a lot happens down in the wild of Tasmania... (I hadn't heard of it either, I'm so glad this channel covers things other than the usual suspects.)

[@-vermin-]

Ha! I was the complete opposite. I was like "haven't they done this one?" Nope. It was just familiar to me.

[@stuartgmk]

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[@PetroicaRodinogaster264]

You need to read some history then…maybe you are just a teenager not interested in recent events. do yourself a favour.

[@wendelee8639]

I love it when Aussie cases/stories are covered. Born and bred in Adelaide myself, but Tassie is my favourite place in the world. Just spectacular.

[@MangaBottle]

As tragic as the whole event was, when I heard that the ship's cargo was beer and fertilizer I couldn't help thinking, "Yep, this is definitely taking place in Australia."

[@quillmaurer6563]

When I heard the fertilizer bit, I was worried this would end far worse - I've heard of many stories of ships loaded with that being instantly deleted from existence, sometimes taking half a city with them.

[@dawnreneegmail]

Fertilizer load I also though uh-oh (Beirut), then beer as in either hold my or PROBLEM SOLVED (inebriation.) Really enjoy this channel💁🏼‍♀️, dox are my jam and I've learned different angles of episodes here including deeper dives into cause, personalities, engineering. Loss of life is never entertainment but lives are lost in follies and wrong place wrong time. RIP all souls in these situations. We'll check out findings on the newly located wreck.

[@itsjohndell]

@@quillmaurer6563 Same here, ammonium nitrate fertilizer is bad stuff but no mention of explosion is mentioned but may have been suppressed . It would explain a lot.

[@lessgoofyone]

​@@dawnreneegmailthrough this comment I've fallen in love with you

[@chris-non-voter]

But no Sheila's

[@Peter-zg3em]

i love the angle you take covering these stories. we're grownups and we know how to feel about men who die at sea. here we get a look at the facts of the case, the underlying conditions and the context provided by the era, and what has changed since then. RIP

[@ianstradian]

I’m a Merchant Marine and we train for Survival at sea because of stories like this. God bless all sailors who are lost at sea, those who are found and those who are not.

[@OceanSwimmer]

Amen. 💕🙏✝️🙏💕

[@miapdx503]

God bless all those who put out to sea. Your courage is amazing. I keep you all in my prayers. I wish you calm seas and good fortune...🌹

[@TileGuyJesse]

I especially feel sad for the two men who had just made it to land probably thinking they'd made it to safety, and then ended up dying of exposure. Tragic.

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Yeah, imagine that would be esp. tough for the families to hear too 🥺 Surviving all that insane time at sea only to die of exposure once reaching land! Really hammers home again how grueling their whole experience was...

[@miapdx503]

I heard a story where some shipwrecked men made it to land. But they weren't safe. The island they found was overrun with poisonous snakes...😲

[@thisismyname3928]

Your content is outstanding and you never beg for likes, so thanks for a great channel!

[@topsuperseven7910]

I think i was following this channel from nearly 'day 1' and I just noticed it's well over 1 million subscribers now. WELL DESERVED because Fascinating Horror is unique in that there is the revelation of horrors but without gore, scares, without creating some dirty intrigue about it and conveying the tragedy but also the heroes and what good came out of a disaster too. Well done sir!

[@kathyjones1576]

That's why I (and I'm sure a lot of people) like this channel so much. He presents the facts without drama. These incidents are already bad enough, they don't need extra drama thrown in.

[@stacyvogel6550]

Amen. And that voice is wonderful.

[@olivebrosnan4437]

Plus the music is iconic

[@bluesirius1]

​@@olivebrosnan4437the music is wonderful indeed

[@kathyjones1576]

Yes, his voice and the music are great!

[@ZombieSazza]

God I’m not sure how I could cope with hearing “we’re the only ones who know we’re adrift at sea”, that’s such a terrifying prospect. The sea is so vast and unforgiving!

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

and to compound that, the Bass Strait is notorious for its highly unpredictable weather

[@reydo17]

That is effing scary, even more so because I'm thalassaphobic.

[@gbeagle417]

Went on a whale watch with my children and in the middle I started realizing I had no fucking idea what was left, right, up, down. If had to abandon ship and swim. I had no idea where land was.. It was pretty freaky.

[@j0nnyism]

Pretty typical for crews of 19th and early 20th century ships. Once ur castaway ur probably going to die

[@ZombieSazza]

@@gbeagle417 as a kid I grew up right across from the beach (Buckie in NE Scotland) and my late step father had a wee boat, just like one of them pleasure crafts? Decent size, not quite a yacht but could easily fit 6 people, had a small area inside and a small bed, we just used it honestly for the love of boating! As much as I loved going on the boat (she was called Skye, where step dad was from) we always stayed within eyesight of the shore. Hamish LOVED sailing, BUT he had to keep the shore nearby, none of us could stand the idea of suddenly seeing no land and not knowing up from down, left from right, so we never ventured too far off the coast. We know how unforgiving the sea is and there’s just straight up no way we’d have ventured too far out. My grandfather however (his boat was in Nairn) didn’t have this fear, and as much as I loved dolphin watching near Chanonry point (really popular dolphin spotting area) and going slightly further out to see the dolphins, it terrified me when we got further and further out where the sea became incredibly dark, where you couldn’t see the coastline and you felt so tiny out in the vastness. Thankfully granddad didn’t go this far out often when I was on the boat, he understood I needed to see land to feel safe.

[@zetectic7968]

The fact that not route was logged when there was 2 courses to the destination seems a gross oversight even for the time. It is fortunate that only 3 died given the time to rescue & conditions in the life-raft. Thanks for the video.

[@Stan-at-KangarooIslandTV]

Do you realise we just found the wreck of the Blythe Star? If not, amazing coincidence you made this video one month later! The wreck lies 150 metres under water, about 10.5km west of Tasmania’s South West Cape. In footage captured by the CSIRO, the word “STAR” is faintly visible on the bow of the ship.

[@Stratelier]

Apparently, the wreck had been first discovered in the mid-90s but not conclusively identified as the MV Blythe Star (being mostly forgotten as a result); the last surviving crewmember (Mr. Doleman) was present for the confirmation.

[@davidci]

Unrelated to the video, but I would also hope you talk about MV Doña Paz, considered the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster so far. Despite it being the deadliest maritime disaster and having happened here in the Philippines, it's not much talked about here at all, so a video would be nice to learn more about it.

[@jimihendrix991]

...the one where 5000 +/- people drowned?

[@piotrbugaj5179]

Recently I had similar thoughts, I googled list of maritime disasters to see where Titanic stands today (5th) and was stunned upon realizing that a catastrophe which tripled it's death toll is something I never heard about before.

[@davidci]

@@piotrbugaj5179 That's also how I found out about it. Imagine my shock when I learned that the deadliest maritime incident was in my country and it's not taught about at all here. There's a lot of those incidents that aren't taught here as well, such as Wowowee human crush that killed 73 people yet has not been talked about at all here.

[@ezrea9313]

I think Maritime Horrors has covered this. The guy who runs the channel was/is in the coast guard so he's able to provide a more detailed explanation of everything. I highly recommend the channel

[@quillmaurer6563]

Amazing how little known that one was, especially in comparison to Titanic. Sad truth I suspect is that it got far less attention than the probably wealthier American and British victims of Titanic. Now that I think of it, I suspect the amount of attention and fame disasters get is not for the number of people lost, but the combined net worth of those lost. Just look at the Titan submersible implosion (5 dead) versus the Messina migrant boat sinking a few days earlier (possibly as much as 600 dead). Really shows how humans worldwide seem to value wealth more than life.

[@dmreddragon6]

That was one hell of a wake up. Waking up to endure a waking nightmare that keeps going. These men had great fortitude.

[@ELApickle]

I binged all your content and now I'm being drip fed like a hamster for more content. Thankyou for uploading and giving me some more sweet nectar.

[@johanea]

I too have some sweet nectar dripping, you want some?

[@ELApickle]

@@johanea I was told to never accept nectar from strangers

[@johanea]

@@ELApickle Bahahaha 😁😁😁😁 A very good advice indeed 👍🏻

[@_kaleido]

he uploads every Tuesday morning (U.S. East Coast time) in case you didn’t know :)

[@ELApickle]

@@_kaleido what's that in Australian currency

[@GeneSavage]

It's amazing how obvious certain changes can seem in hindsight: logging where you are going, thicker life rafts with beacons, etc. Yet obviously if these had seemed like requirements beforehand you know somebody would have done something about it. I'm confident the entire staff of the shipping industry wasn't maliciously leaving these things undone. Your videos are always amazing; thank you for your efforts to tell these men's stories.

[@mousepariah3884]

Agreed, Lots of times in these stories you find out something was done (or not) and it comes down to greed and/or laziness. This one though the only blatantly obvious "stupid" was that there was no requirement to even log which route you chose.

[@Danger_mouse]

Thank you for sharing this video. As an Aussie, I'm aware of the need for boats to carry EPIRB beacons and I have an excellent Aussie made land based one for dirtbiking. I was totally unaware where the requirement arose from.

[@dawnstorm9768]

The more you know.

[@cadillacdeville5828]

Where does it make sense in ANY REGARD NOT telling others your route on a ship?!!!

[@zakelwe]

When the El Faro went down the shipping company that owned it didn't know where it was either until they reported they were sinking. And that was not so long back.....

[@anikajain571]

Brilliantly made & delivered as always, great to hear another Aussie story, thankyou 👍

[@CatsT.M]

Genuinely impressive that those 3 people could climb without having eaten for so long.

[@CatsT.M]

@@ThugHunter88 It is one of the most powerful things in existence.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Did they eat the dead sailors it does happen

[@jamesmcnaughton5092]

My coworker went 17 days without eating just because he felt like it

[@Straswa]

Great vid FH. Wow what a story: spending so much time adrift, finally making to solid ground and then having to trek all that way to find help. RIP to the 3 sailors who lost their lives.

[@missmurdocko]

Can't believe I've never heard of this! Thank you for another Aussie story :)

[@gboy2513]

Fascinating Horror is definitely gonna put out a video on the Titan Submersible. He’s either working on it now, or will start working on it when he’s 60.

[@dawnreneegmail]

So much to learn. I watched Capt. Edward's emotional press conference a few days back on KZbin, filmed AFTER debriefing, then speaking with the surviving families on 72 hours of no rest the master submariner gave an amazing account, spoke with authority and grace, on the brink of tears. Wonder if Stockton considered those folks.

[@josi4251]

Every safety measure is written in blood. Good on these men for managing the unthinkable.

[@meredithgrubb4497]

It's 6:02 am here in east TN and I'm so happy u just dropped a new video. Nothing can make me miss ur videos.

[@edwardjensen1049]

Love your content. Your voice coupled with your research is gold.

[@pakde8002]

Earliest I've ever been so will take the opportunity to say congratulations in 1 million subscribers. Absolutely phenomenal growth. 🎉🎉🎉

[@jessicaruijschop5966]

As a local Hobartian I had never heard of this story. Thank you so much for covering this!

[@monicabennett6620]

Great story. So sad and yet powerful.

[@carlmanvers5009]

I am shocked I hadn't heard of this. Globally, I live right next door to where this happened.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

Thank you for a wonderful production, as always,👍

[@davidpawson7393]

Every time I board a passenger plane, ferry or train I think about those that perished to make my passage safer. As my father had boarded a passenger jet and due to complications from a recent surgery for cancer, deboarded and watched in horror as that passenger jet slammed into the 14th Street Bridge subsequently sinking in the Potomac River. I was 11 and came home from sledding to a house full of people that wouldn't tell me what was going on and wouldn't let me near the television as the phone rang constantly. Thanks for doing what you do and may every victim rest in peace.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

Huh. Given how "recent" this is at only 50 years ago, it borders on outright bizarre that (cargo) ships in the area didn't have to already give route details beforehand. That only changing *after* people died is just...odd even with that usually being the case for safety rules unfortunately.

[@MrZoolook]

It's a common trend with regulations made to save people from death through complacency. "It was never a problem until it became a problem."

[@chatteyj]

@@MrZoolook Correct, I wonder if in the maritime and aviation industries there are any remaining 'accidents waiting to happen' that pilots and captains moan about as there is no regulations to enforce procedures to prevent these accidents from happening? Instead it falls to peoples common sense and precautions to ensure they don't happen.

[@MrZoolook]

@@chatteyj Likely there are many. It'll only be when one person interprets an obvious instruction incorrectly. Instruction: "Check the door is closed and locked before departure." Seems pretty obvious right? But that could be interpreted as: "Before departure, check if the door is closed and locked. If it isn't, no restorative action is required, but note it in the ship's logbook." Suddenly, that 9 word instruction needs to be 9 paragraphs because of 1 idiot.

[@MusicoftheDamned]

@@MrZoolook Yeah. That adage about safety rules being written in blood or whatever is unfortunately true. It just strikes me as odd even here how something done for centuries already wasn't mandatory here since the captain doesn't seem to have broke any rules unlike so many other videos.

[@amydamjanovic9183]

This story should be made into a movie.

[@JaiPritchett]

Just stared the vid and heard the Bass Straight and instantly paused... As someone raised in the Port Phillip Bay and was a NAYVY cadet and recruit and cant live far away from the bay... I am so excited to see this vid! There are sooo many shipwrecks of the coast of Victoria. And soo many forgotten

[@cathycastleton]

Excellent story, when truth is way scarier than fiction And Australian, thanks ! From Oz

[@robson_pl_kch2548]

That was such a breathtaking story!!!

[@sspotter1978]

Much love from across the pond. Thanks for giving me something to look forward to. ❤

[@Braeflip]

I just gotta say thank you so much for making every single one of these videos. We can't thank you enough. ❤

[@sallykohorst8803]

Yes very interesting subject and thanks for the video.😢😮

[@seth8877]

Waking up Tuesdays to sip coffee and enjoy your videos is one of my favorite things. History can be horrible so it's always nice to see your optimistic evaluations.

[@planet43]

I used to go to school with John Eagles, the son of the Chief Engineer who passed on the beach. We were pretty good friends, used to do a lot of shooting together up behind Coffs Hbr back in the 70s . I never knew the terrible details until watching this well put together video. Thanks.

[@kevinknight287]

What a crazy story! Thanks for researching these stories, keep up the excellent work.

[@nicoleh3703]

I accidentally found your channel at 4:30 this morning when my niece woke me up with her screaming. I can't believe I have to thank her for helping me find this channel lol.

[@Sacto1654]

It's still a major miracle that seven crew members survived the sinking.

[@Pattilapeep]

Another great and fascinating piece of work. Thank you so much for these informative amazing videos. take care Pat in New Jersey

[@goblindumper69]

sometimes is pays off to be awake at 4am

[@artyjnrii]

And to sleep fully clothed. I never take mine off just in case I end up in a shipwreck.

[@lifespanwellnessbeauty-60i64]

Very interesting story. I love how the young seaman noted that due to positive changes, his comrades didn't die in vain.

[@YokRzeznic]

I grew up about 20km from where they washed up and this is the first I have heard of this story! Guess it wasn't as bored into the south Tassie psyche as the bridge collapse two years later.

[@gemfyre855]

I watch a lot of channels like this and most of the time I've heard of the story at least. This one I had never heard of! And I live in Australia! (OK, so I'm from Perth, which is the other side of the country from Tassie but still.)

[@matthewtayl0r]

Like a lot of other comments, I too am from Australia yet had never heard of this story!! Been a fan of your channel for a while now. Great video as always. Thanks

[@brandycarter9829]

God, I love Australia! Such a ruggedly beautiful place - full of tough and interesting people. I'm proud to be from the USA, (Happy 4th, fellow Americans!) but the number one item on my bucket list is- and always has been- a long extended stay on the only island in the world that's cool enough to also be a continent! 🇦🇺

[@experienceaeiou]

okay why was this one of the scarier fascinating horror videos i’ve seen 😰

[@w1swh1]

Great story. As you said the three men lost didn't pass in vain!

[@roscoewhite3793]

I recall following the story of the Blythe Star's loss as it broke (I was born in Tasmania, and living in Melbourne); this is an excellent account of the sinking and the aftermath. And another Blythe Star was lost in Bass Strait in 1959 with the loss of one life after it caught fire an hour into a voyage from Ulverstone to Melbourne.

[@esteemedmothperson]

this is an incredible story, thank you for sharing. many aspects of it reminded me of shackleton's voyage on the james caird and his three-man south georgia island overland trek.

[@stevesgaming7475]

That's both amazing and terrifying.

[@jomama5186]

I was 4, so I guess I can give myself a break for not knowing about this, but WOW !!! Another great job my friend 🧡🙏🏻

[@valeriegoode9762]

Absolutely fascinating.

[@garrywest8511]

Can still remember, when growing up in Tassie, when this ship disappeared and the search for her

[@adventureswithgrunt]

A 50th Anniversary plaque was unveiled this week in Hobart. Mick Doleman was there and is the last remaining survivor.

[@PhilipMurphyExtra]

What a story, Such a nightmare for everyone involved for sure.

[@happycommuter3523]

Shades of the Endurance! A ship sinks, crew makes it out in small boat(s), finally land but terrain is so hostile it can scarcely be traversed, a small party sets out nevertheless and finally reaches some semblance of civilization. What unbelievable grit and determination to survive.

[@RagingMoon1987]

Fascinating! I'd never heard of this one.

[@mixedboi]

The last sentence sums up every successful execution of a new law by a tragic event, very well said.

[@Stripedbottom]

Without having correct details I can immediately see from the photos that the Blythe Star was a small cargoship loading about 1000 tons or so. That would put her length probably at around 60-70 meters, not 13 meters or 44 feet. 13 meters is a large boat. It would be interesting to know what caused the sinking - a rather small list that suddenly and instantaneously turns the ship on it's sides while in good weather and no previous trouble at all is quite unusual. My personal bet is that there was a rather small leak into the cargo hold and the fertilizer was loaded in bulk (ie. just a big frigging pile of it in the cargo hold). A ship of this vintage probably did not have side tanks yet, so the only thing separating the cargo hold from the sea was the few millimeters of steel side plating. And then of course there are various bilge wells, ballast piping etc. where the water could have come from if faulty, or the wrong valves were forgotten open, et cetera. Wherever the water came from, it mostly soaked into the fertilizer. A small amount of free water accumulated on the starboard side (because that side is where the ship already had a tiny weeny list, and naturally wanted to lean to) causing a small starboard list. But once this list got steep enough, suddenly a mass of fertilizer which had been soaked into a mud-like goo 'liquified', ie. started to act like a liquid, and tens or hundreds of tons of it suddenly flowed/fell/slided to the starboard side. This would be impossible to achieve with a dry cargo, as there would be no room for the pile to suddenly tilt to one side and would require quite a massive list to begin with anyway, and also impossible to achieve with water or other free-flowing liquid as it would settle to one side almost as fast as it entered and the list would increase gradually but slowly enough to investigate and do something about - unless the leak was truly massive, say a 1 foot by 1 foot hole in the side, but that is also quite unlikely in this case, without the ship having ran aground collided with anything. So, given the type of cargo and other circumstances involved and the limited information given in this clip, this is my best theory as to what could have caused the loss of the Blythe Star, coming from the chief engineer of a vessel of roughly similar size.

[@redvalentinos1933]

You should cover the case of David Sconce and the Lamb Funeral Home next!

[@alanconnors8881]

Incredible story.

[@fixedG]

That's nothing. I once saw several videos from another shipwreck where the people were stranded on an island for three years when it was only supposed to be a three hour tour. A three hour tour.

[@reachandler3655]

😳 Yikes!

[@tonithomas6143]

😂😂😂

[@OneBentMonkey]

Gonna have that song in my head all day now ugh 😂

[@Norfnorf12]

Yes I’m awake early enough for a freshly baked Fascinating Horror episode!!

[@dwells37]

I giggled when he said "satisfied himself"

[@Unownshipper]

What a horrendous situation. The zig-zag course the raft took, so close to shore at one point and then back out to see in the opposite direction the next, mirrors the rising and dashing hopes of the crew members. To watch a fellow shipmates succumb slowly to a medical condition and then two others die from hypothermia... utterly agonizing.

[@MforMovesets]

Whenever I get a horror uploader without an idiotic voice, I'm hyped. Its like winning a lottery...

[@reachandler3655]

Another fantastic episode, thankyou.

[@Busto]

This has to be one of the most apt uses of, "They didn't lose their lives in vain."

[@illuminatidestroyerbear2231]

Can we just take a moment and appreciate that the Captain's name is Crookshank?

[@1o1RedHead]

I found out a few months ago, that my great-grandfather was on this ship, and he tried to do what he could, to try and save themself.

[@BenFoldsFan421]

1:51 I know what the captain chose!… Given that we’re watching a story about it on fascinating horror I bet this guy pick the more dangerous option…

[@MrTM97]

What a story..! Thanks for telling it. PS: I assume it was longer than 13 meters:)

[@delcbag]

Thanks for another Aussie story!

[@KhanaHatake]

Gotta love the casual "don't tell anyone when or where you're going" practices of the past

[@TheRealElithica]

Glad I was awake at 5 am to catch this.

[@jessehutchings]

A disaster like this is literally the only reason I will never consider work at sea.. 💀

[@pamelacooke489]

I live in Tasmania and no idea about this!

[@kitiyana]

Great story! Thanks

[@briewhit1312]

Remember, Your Safety Matters. God Bless those Men and the lives lost during that harrowing trip. They have not died in vein.

[@peterforrest6682]

The Blythe Star was certainly a lot longer than 13 metres.

[@robertwilloughby8050]

I think I can help here. Australian ship certification in 1973 was based on width, not length. In fact, it was this accident that lead to Australia to change their ship certification.

[@colinrunciman5166]

Very true, brave men.

[@brianedwards7142]

Fertiliser and beer is the most Aussie cargo there is.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Along with boomerangs and puka shell necklaces.

[@Eastsid3]

That captain bungled that operation - didn't alert crew of path, no distress signal and left comms equipment. I know they were in danger but damn.

[@benwilson6145]

Why alert crew to path?!!!What difference would that make? The ship sank too quickly for a distress to be made and the Captain cannot stay on watch 24 hours.

[@kingrama2727]

Captain Crookshank is definitely a sailors name

[@AndiLawson27]

What a sad story.

[@GMRay739]

The whole bit about safety regulations being written in blood is so true, but it always startles me how lackadaisical they are until after the blood has been spilled. It's like that "it won't happen to me"/"this is how we have always done it" attitude This case: - Should we know which direction the ship is going in case we lose contact? Naaah - They have a life raft. Great. Easy to see and detect with radar? Why bother?

[@andrewdillon7837]

Hey do the Rose-Noëlle ,, It was upside down a coupla months , washed back to New Zealand ,,horror indeed..

[@janosnagyj.9540]

It's quite hard to think that in modern times it could happen to go either a way or the opposite without informing anyone. Damn, was a radio call considered so much difficult, after the decision was made by the captain???

[@mikepowell2776]

Terrifying story well told. I think they were looking for a 144 foot (44 metre) ship rather than 13 foot (4 metre) vessel which is the size of a dinghy.

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

Gosh, I'd never even heard of this incident, despite its clearly having had a massive impact on Aussie maritime safety regulations! 😯 Great sympathy to those who passed away & their families, as well as to the guys who survived but had such a harrowing experience. I'm absolutely certain that the changes made thanks to this incident have saved MANY lives in the years since then. 🙏

[@mikeyd946]

Wow 😮

[@JGCR59]

Just some tiny nitpick: at 6:22 you got the units wrong. She was 44 Meters or 130 feet in lenght. 13 Meters would be a whaleboat