Was emailed this link from a friend that follows world shipping, super yachts, Sea Shepard, wooden boats and just about everything maritime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eBaeWvG3Us
In my daily business news sources, there will be at least one article a week with photos or video of crews somewhere in the world being rescued by ships, helicopters, or boats off their ship, raft or lifeboat. It is rare but there was one on a South African beach where the crew was taken off by the old high lines.
Collisions or allisions are daily and pirating almost daily.
Things haven't changed much in 300 years.
I am currently listening on Audible to the book "Wooden Ships on Winyah Bay" by Robert McAlister. He gives the history, stories, and list the numerous sailing and steaming ships going to and from Georgetown, SC through Winyah Bay. This area is near where I do most of my sea kayaking and plan on sailing the Scamp some this year. Georgetown has a wooden boat show every Oct.
I was surprised how many of these ships ran into trouble and had their crews rescued. Many of the boats listed ran aground at Cape Romain and Cape Hatteras or collided with other ships, some multiple times. Much of the info is from newspaper reports from the time period. Interesting history though the writing is a bit dry at times. I am enjoying it and love the newspaper accounts.
Oh, yes. Cape Hatteras and the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum.
I'd say there's a cliff a-lee! Those chopper pilots have big hairy ones and have saved many a sailor. Seems there might be room for a technological jump here. An air deployed drone capable of hauling 'em off the deck and back to mother. Easily doable with today's tech and would get out of having a fishhook trying to get snagged to the wreck while tied to a $30M shrapnel bomb.
I had a friend who drove cg rescue choppers. He said the most common run was lifting someone off of a cruise ship who ended up having bad indigestion. Imagine that, overeating.
Each tiny line is the name and date of a ship that wrecked along the outer banks.
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