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This isn't really ridiculous and I'm not sure why you'd think it was unbelievable for the boat to fail climbing the wave and get pitch-poled and somehow believable if it instead climbed the wave successfully. The boat's engine stalled, they lost power, the wave crested too early and broke, and the boat was pitch-poled. By the way, this entire scene is from Ernie Hazard's survivor testimony of a boat called the Fairwind, which had exactly this happen to them - they were pitch-poled by an enormous wave after enduring a 48-hr beating in a severe storm off George's Bank.

The boat was upside down. The exit was a watertight door sealed with steel dogs - there was no way out of that. The only way out was through broken wheelhouse windows. Think about it. The boat's upside down, so everything is inverted. The power is failing, you're up to your chest in seconds, and you have maybe a minute or two of air in your lungs. Not nearly enough to cover the distance to make it into the wheelhouse, let alone the next 20ft to the surface. Plus, panic sets in real quick and no matter how tough anybody is, it can completely take over. None of them made it out in real life, so none of them made it out in the book or the movie.

@@pc_buildyb0i935 I didn’t mean the fire door with the round handle, or the escape hatch (whatever its called), I was referring to the actual entry way that leads from the deck to the underside of the boat, and yes I get panic sets in but at least try. But, and heres the kicker, I don’t know what actually happened that horrible day, I would hope they tried everything in their power to make it, damn sure is sad though.

@@TheStudderman The watertight door on the deck that leads inside the ship is what I was talking about. The bulkhead door on the whaleback deck, the way the crew got in and out of the boat. It was sealed with watertight dogs to prevent flooding. It wouldn't be able to be opened in the event the boat was capsized or pitch-poled. Also, there was no escape hatch and no "fire door with a round handle". She was almost certainly pitch-poled, and yes, it is indeed very sad. Especially for the families back on shore.

@@pc_buildyb0i935 So the door Pierre was trying to open wasn’t on the AG?, Thats the round handle I’m referring to. Another question, while they’re moving, the crew is locked below deck with the steel dogs latched? And if so, are the steel dogs on the in or outside of the crews access? Im asking because isn’t that a setup for tragedy if the crew cant open the door to try and escape. I take it from your wording that you’re familiar with sailing/boating?

@@TheStudderman Check out the scene again. The door you're talking about is the same door I'm talking about. It doesn't have any round handle, it was watertight dogs, which look like angled, rectangular handles that narrow toward the extreme ends, with one on each of the 4 corners of the door. Those are the dogs. They seal the door along the frame so no water gets in. They're on both sides of the bulkhead door, on the inside and on the outside. The door can be opened from either side, provided it isn't locked (the lock is a separate mechanism). But they also prevent an escape when the ship rolls over, as now you have to fight against several tons of water pressure to open the door. No human would have the strength to push it open, but if you're trapped in an upside down boat, that's practically a death sentence in and of itself. To answer your other question, no, the crew isn't normally locked in. The dogs are never sealed unless the boat's getting into a storm. Yes, I live on the East Coast and have been on a few commercial fishing boats and am an aspiring naval architect. I haven't been to school for it, but I've read a bit about boat/ship design

Well, technically, it would take 3 hours and 57 minutes for the meteor to strike the Earth after reaching the Zero Barrier, meaning the kid would have less than FIVE hours left of his life. But you ARE correct: it IS a heartbreaking scene either way.😢

It felt gawd awful too real, wich makes it that much better…….my favorite movie by Bruce Willis…& every other movie star in it……so many good actors…😢

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They got more than a few things wrong throughout the movie, but the biggest is their reaction to the weather report. In the film, they get the warning early, while on the fishing grounds, and decide to drive through it anyway. In real life, they were already halfway home when the first forecast came through, and only called for mild weather. They wouldn't get an updated weather fax predicting dangerous weather until a few hours before it hit them, and even still it under-reported the conditions they'd face.

@@pc_buildyb0i935They also got the distress call wrong. Billy Tyne's last radio call was "She's comin' on boys and she's comin' on strong!". From what other captains of the fishing fleet and the Coast Guard reported Andrea Gail never issued any distress call or it was never received if they did. The Andrea Gails EPIRB was found washed up on Sable Island but it wasn't transmitting a distress signal which would have prompted immediate search and rescue from the Coast Guard. No one ever verified if it was in the on position or not. The search for the Andrea Gail never began during the storm. The ship was declared overdue after the storm and then the Coast Guard began a search. The movie did show Andrea Gail heading for the Flemish Cap but didn't show Hannah Bowden resupplying the Andrea Gail so she could stay out longer. Greenlaw reported she resupplied the Andrea Gail. The movie was somewhat accurate right up to the point where the helicopter crew rescued the people off of the sailboat. After that the last accurate thing portrayed in the movie was when the helicopter crew got rescued. Literally everything involving the Andrea Gail was speculation and educated guesswork since the wreck was never found and no one lived to tell the tale.

​@@michaelmarcum3898Absolutely correct, and the final radio contact with the Andrea Gail wasn't from Linda Greenlaw of the Hannah Boden, but captain Tommie Barrie of the Allison. Barrie called the Andrea Gail at 6pm local time, since she was the westernmost boat of the fleet, to ask for a weather report because he thought he might be able to get away with fishing a set or two before the storm reached them on the fishing grounds. Billy radioed back that they were 130nm East of Sable Island, experiencing 30ft seas and 50 knot winds gusting to 80 so Barrie decided to keep the gear onboard and wait for a further update. The two men agreed to talk again at 11 that night, then Tyne addressed the entire fleet on an open mic and said the famous line you quoted above. And that was it. Tyne never radioed Barrie back at 11, and after waiting an hour, Barrie radioed back with no response. Thanks to weather buoy data in the area, we know the conditions worsened overnight until a lull in the weather at 11, where the winds and wave heights dropped and the wave periods increased. Then, at midnight, conditions ramped back up and the entire area was turned into a surf zone of 100ft waves. So the Andrea Gail and her crew were absolutely lost during this 6 hour window, the only question is when. If we assume nothing catastrophic happened (engine failure, loss of rudder control, etc) and the boat was kept pointed into the incoming weather, it's possible she made it all the way to midnight. We know for a fact a boat her size could absolutely not navigate 100ft seas and would have lasted no more than a few moments after midnight, but it's debatable when during those 6 hours she actually went down.

He is also experiencing space dementia and could care less if they live or die, mission success or not. But yeah I agree.

Super rogue waves? That's nonsense. The largest wind-driven waves in the open Atlantic would max out at ~180ft, rogues would max out at 2.2x that. The rogue wave in this scene is supposed to be 100ft, there's no rogue waves out there 500ft tall.

The captain is traditionally the last one off the boat, and responsible for everybody's safety. If a captain can't get everybody out and knows people are dying, they'll sometimes elect to go down with the boat out of guilt.

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