Im grateful the history channel was this well produced and had actual pertinent history to document when I was growing up. I learned so much being glued to the tv watching the history channel instead of mtv…
Yup. Me as well. Watched it all the time. My fav pastime in school was catching errors history teachers made & arguing them into admitting it lol. Looking back though, good teachers for allowing the debates.
What immense courage in the face of such adversity. I remember, I'd been to a secluded part of the beach in Bombay at night time and despite the sea being calm, got a panic attack over the fear of an imaginary rogue wave and the darkness. Just ran back and haven't visited the beach ever since.
I remember this storm. I’d driven from my home in Cleveland on the 26th to stay with my cousin in Boston after she’d had surgery. I planned to return on the 31st when her sister would fly in from Arlington, VA. Obviously, it never happened. I was stuck in Boston and the flight from Dulles was cancelled. Just as well, because there’s no way I would have made it to the airport! My cousin’s house lost some siding and one window in the hall was broken when a tree came down, just brushing the side of the house. The yard was flooded enough to require reseeding in the Spring, but overall, it came out not bad. The basement that had been leak sealed that summer stayed perfectly dry. I got the kerosene camping lanterns and Coleman stove from my car--I stored my camping gear in the spare tire and wheel well sections--and we did just fine. Loretta had a Ben Franklin woodstove in the front room and firewood in the garage. We hung blankets to cordon off the room and lived downstairs, Lor on the couch, and I slept on the floor. Both Loretta and Christina are gone now; it’s only me, two nephews, and a grandniece left of a once very large family. I’m the “old auntie.”
Thanks 'auntie' reading your adventure was just like being there with all of you. Your family, in life, battled the forces of death together and won. You are so fortunate to have lived a rewarding life.
I have never ever seen such brave and courageous men as those coast guard rescue swimmers. Wow. Feel so bad for the one that didn't make it. Bless also that boat captain who refused to abandon those men!!
@@funkyforest9102 Reading the book 'The Perfect Storm' shows us how hard and demanding the selection process is for these pararescuemen. The ones who make it are almost super-human. They are true heroes.
We lived in Minnesota in 1991 and that weekend we had a massive blizzard that dropped massive snow and so cold. The kids quick got trick or treating in and then all he'll broke loose. This makes so much sense now. Thank you Weather Channel.
I remember this storm. I lived in Eastern Passage just outside of Dartmouth Nova Scotia just 100 feet from the ocean, and the day after we went out to take a look, and we saw large boulders on the main road. These boulders were very heavy. Just goes to show you how bad it was. I don't remember ever seeing something like that before.
I remember the real-life Perfect Storm. Even though I was only 4 at the time, I was out trick-or-treating in it. I still remember the pouring rain and howling wind. That was in Rhode Island.
@@tammysims8716 What I meant was that I lived on the coast at the time of the storm, and after the storm I walked across my street to take a look around, and I saw large boulders were thrown over a 20 foot embankment along the shoreline. It was the craziest thing I have ever seen.
@JustAllinOneResource That sounds really scary. I love the Atlantic Ocean and especially in the North East with those old lighthouses and the craggy shorelines where the waves have crashed upon those rocks since time immemorial. Hey, thanks for responding to my question. I'm glad you survived the storm!.
Define the word "tough!!". How do you know if you're "tough??". What's the criteria...in your opinion, because every opinion will vary!! I say military personnel are tough!
@@bigdee8189Tough is a mindset. The ability to think and act past fear, past personal risk & not allow despair to pull you under. I call it “crisis mode,” you see it in a lot of first responders too. If they’re good ones.
I was a Senior in Gloucester High School when this storm came along….. 32 years ago now. I’ve seen some serious stuff in my time…. NOTHING compares to this storm. Nothing. The stuff I saw happen those 2 days and nights will live with me til the day I die….. I watched 40 foot waves TEAR HOMES from the foundations and shatter them to pieces….. I watch landscapes get reformed!!! Granite rocks that had stood for thousands of millennia…… shattered under the constant heavy blows of the ocean….. THE OCEAN IS DEADLY in ways most never understand. There are memorials in my town to the thousands who have died at Sea never to be returned…..
I was living in Gloucester at the time too in a townhouse at the edge of the outer harbor across from Ten Pound Island & just down from Niles Beach. You can see it in the background during the opening credits of The Perfect Storm (white building w/red roof). I watched the neighbors patio get washed away & remember how sections of Atlantic Rd were washed away after the waves picked up the huge boulders & slammed them onto the road & caused it to break up. Parts of the road were just gone & houses that used to be across the street from the ocean were suddenly just feet from the water. Storm scared me enough that I moved back home to Kentucky just 7 weeks later.
Try living in south Louisiana where hurricanes are just a way of life. We’re used to dealing with cat 4, cat 5 hurricanes. We get the brute force of hurricanes bc of how hot and humid the weather is and how warm the waters are. And it’s just the norm to everyone. But when the north east coast experiences a storm that is barely categorized as a cat 1 hurricane, it gets extremely blown out of proportion. Example: “Superstorm Sandy”. It was barely a cat 1 hurricane when it made landfall up in jersey, and people treated it like it was the “storm of the century”. I can only imagine if a hurricane that was barely a category 3 ever made landfall up in the northeast, it would be considered “Armageddon”
This storm was so big and strong that it forced a Gulf low pressure system all the way up to Minnesota where I was living at the time. It gave us a Halloween blizzard that dumped 3 feet of snow and subzero temperatures followed for almost a month. Temperatures were 40 degrees below normal, and roads were closed for more than a week. The Perfect Storm caused this by forcing the Gulf Low north, the first and only time that has happened here.
Thank you for explaining this. I had always wondered why there were these two very extreme weather events in such a particular period of time. It seemed unlikely. And while late October is absolutely when one expect Nor'easters, and also final hurricanes and they do sometimes combine, as with Sandy., but the storm in Minnesota seemed hard to fathom. Moat of my family are New Englanders, one family member went to college at Carlton in the 50s, and stayed out there. But I don't know when people where you live expect the winter storms to start - late Oct seemed early to me. I have never heard anyone else put together these series of outlandish weather systems. It is fascinating hearing from you what happened. Thanks again.
My jaw dropped when I found this "Halloween Storm" of 1991 wasn't our blizzard in Minnesota but "The Perfect Storm" from the movie. I had no idea they happened at the same time, or that they were related at all. How could that blizzard have been a mere footnote? How many people died in The Perfect Storm? 13? The Halloween Blizzard killed 22. I think it's fair to say Minnesota alone got hit harder than New England. It was the heaviest snowfall from a single storm in Minnesota history, more than the Armistice Day Blizzard, and more than the Super Bowl Blizzard of 1975. But before the snow fell here in the Cities, we got a few inches of ice. That ice was buried under 4 feet of snow by the end of November, with a few freeze-thaw cycles to thicken it and toughen it. We had to wait until very late in the spring for the snow pack to melt enough to expose the ice so it could start melting. Most side streets were like moguls on a ski slope that whole winter. Snow plows were almost useless - they dug up a chunk of ice here and there, making the roads almost undrivable - all winter!
@@greenman6141 We never get the real heavy storms that early in the year. That storm was unique. Think of the "gales of November" that came early (on November 10) and sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. That was a low called a panhandle hooker. (They form over the TX/OK panhandle region, move east, then "hook" up north to the Great Lakes area, sucking a bunch of Gulf moisture up with them.) If those storms hook a little to the left, that's when we get our big early season blizzards, like the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. (The January 1975 Super Bowl Blizzard was a panhandle hooker too, only not so early.)
@@beenaplumber8379 Truly fascinating. I know nothing about the systems that hit Minnesota. My cousins who grew up there would tell us that the summers could be very hot and humid, and the winters so so snowy that they shook their heads and laughed - as one does when something is really outrageous. Based on my zero knowledge, I'd always thought those gales of November had to do with cold Canadian air coming over the still relatively warmer waters of the Great Lake.. Even the names of the weather systems...panhandle hooker...are fascinating. Thanks for posting!
Meanwhile, Halloween night 1991 we had a freak snow storm and a blizzard down here in New Mexico. The snow continued the next day. I didn't have to go to work because of the roads. This is little village/town called Tularosa NM. Were at the base of the Sacramento mountains in the high desert.3 nights and 2 days of constant snow and wind. That is how badass this storm really was. The following monday or Tuesday was when I heard about the Andria Gail being missing in the seas. The storm was amazing but losing men to the sea was so sad.
@@jamesmiller4085 I bet you're one that would complain if nobody helped you aren't you? I would guess you would also say nah nah I don't need no help ever. I bet your opinion would change if that coast guard was the only thing between you and the dark embrace of death wouldn't you?
I know I’ve watched this more than once. Every time I find some new, amazing fact. The fact they called out additional rescue units to rescue the rescuers somehow got by me before.
The path was somewhat similar to the 1938 Hurricane in that it came inland again, across Eastern Long Island, up the coast of New England into the Maritimes of Canada before losing strength. My parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles all have vivid, sometimes scary memories of it. My mother was riding with her mother, younger brother, and grandpa at the wheel and they got blown across the Motor Parkway, nearly toppling sideways. Somehow, grandpa got the tires out of the mud and they were able to reach their apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. On Long Island, Dad stayed with his sister at their Aunt and Uncle’s home in Port Jefferson. The house was high on the top of a steep hill and the harbor below washed two blocks into the downtown area, the ferry tore from its mooring ending up smashing into the side of the Post Office. Portions of Long Island were months without power and phone service.
Well done, documenta y! I remember that day clearly as if Grace hit yesterday. I was in N.H. I have to say that barometric pressure affects animals and alters humans temperaments. Anxiety and unusual moods. I left N.H. on the 31st. I love storms..... but Grace was relentless and terrifying. So much loss. So many lives lost. My heart broke. Thank you Coast Guard and all who risked their lives saving others. Respect 🙏
Fun fact: The weather bureau's director Willis Moore, implemented a new policy to block any/all warnings about hurricanes from Cuba due to post Spanish-American war tensions. They still refused updates, insisting the hurricane would keep north into Florida. This was even after the Galveston hurricane had left Cuba and their weather service (one of the best in the world at the time) forecasted the hurricane to continue west toward the Texas coast. I'm honestly shocked he wasn't jailed or hung for this decision that ultimately cost the lives of up to 6,000-12,000 people
Good observation. You might say it was a crime against humanity. The guy politicized the weather bureau and it caused the greatest natural disaster in US history. It was a tragedy of epic proportions.
Like letting Pearl Harbor happen when they knew hours ahead of the attack a Japanize small submarine was spotted in the harbor. Life's cheap to some people in power.
Our house got washed out to sea, literally everything except the foundation, me and my gf stayed too long, I was mesmerized st the waves crashing over the roof, it was kinda beautiful, green water running down the windows, then a wave picked up boulder and it crashed through the sliding glass doors and that was it, we had to go, now I'm the car it's flooded on both sides, we can't get out, so I backed the car away as far as I could and we spent 10 hours in the car watching he house be washed away, waves were crashing on the tr telephone pole wires sparking blue up and down the lines, we survived, luckily. 1991 Marshfield, Mass.
Uncanny how similar Grace was to Sandy: 1. Impacted the same side of the US. 2. Impacted nearly on the same date as Sandy, about 21 years prior. 3. Became a hybrid storm 4. Went west despite forecasts of it going out to sea. 5. Ended up being 1000+ miles across
I thought the whole deal with Sandy is it was forecast to go west, and there were all kinds of evacuation orders and even a curfew ordered in New York City, but nobody could believe it because of a false alarm (although Vermonters wouldn't say so) a few years before, so a lot of people refused to evacuate and then it really WAS as bad as all the warnings? Weather forecasts were tremendously better in 2012 than 1991. They were comparing it to The Perfect Storm and calling it Frankenstorm on the way in. They had satellite imagery in much higher resolution, so they could see it was going to hit the boreaster and expand, plus the low to the west that would draw it in instead of the jet stream bouncing it away like they usually do.
@@ellenbryn Sandy was forecast to curve into NJ about a week in advance, as a hurricane transitioning to an extra tropical storm ( post tropical ), this would cause hurricane force winds as far east as Massachusetts. The biggest impacts were felt in New Jersey and New York, but affects were felt elsewhere the I-81 corridor was subject to blizzard conditions in WVA and Virginia.
If you enjoyed this, watch the move “The Perfect Storm”. After production, they were told a terrifying fact. The final wave shown.....the “villain” should of been 20 feet taller. Yea. That’s how bad the storm was. Hollywood even underestimated it!
The boat was 75 feet long. The wave was nearly double the boat, so it was well over 100 feet at the end of the movie. Weather buoys in the area measured maximum wave heights of 100 feet in the storm, that's it.
@J Jj It's not impossible that they were sunk by a giant wave, but it isn't likely that they were. Sebastian Junger notes that the Andrea Gail had a reputation around Gloucestor for being a pretty tough boat, not to mention the similar fate that befell another boat during a similar situation some 10 years earlier. To quote Junger on the circumtance of the boat being brought down quickly, "the 55-foot Fairwind didn't flip until winds hit 100 knots and the waves were running 70 feet. A more likely scenario is that Billy manages to get through the 10 o'clock weather spike but takes a real beating". I think it's more like what we see in the movie up to the wave. The boat was likely just beaten down over a prolonged period of time, until she couldn't take anymore and went down. It also doesn't seem super likely she'd have been rolled. With some 60,000-odd pounds of ballast in the lowest part of the boat (the fishold), she'd likely roll and right herself like in the film, even being hit from some of the bigger waves. It's also not confirmed but a few witnesses claim to have possibly heard a mayday call from the Andrea Gail around the 30th of October, well into the last few dying breaths of the storm, where conditions weren't nearly what they were before
@J Jj There may be another radio transmission after that from the Andrea Gail. That was Tyne on Oct 28th, about 4 hrs after they'd been in the storm. There are reports from both the Jenny&Doug and the Eishin Maru 78 (both reasonably close to the Andrea Gail's last reported position) of hearing a mayday call on Oct 30th, when the waves were only about 15-20ft. The 100 footers only happened in the early morning of the 29th, but by the 30th, the storm had died down to far more manageable conditions. Weather buoys 44137 and 44139 both reported the 100 footers in the general area of the Andrea Gail, but if it's true that the two boats I mentioned really did pick up a mayday from the Andrea Gail on Oct 30th, there's no way the boat was hit by one of those monsters, as it wouldn't have survived to make a mayday call a full 24hrs later. I think there's a TON of strong evidence (some of which I haven't mentioned yet) that indicates the boat was just slowly worn down by the storm.
Yeah, I agree. Junger is a terrific author, very adept with a pen to formulate his ideas. His book, "The Perfect Storm: Man Against The Sea" is a masterpiece.
I just finished the book. It was superb. I've since been watching documentaries about the Perfect Storm (The 1991 Halloween Gail). The strength & courage of these men & women, the 3 weather systems colliding to become one in the Atlantic. Eye opening & very intriguingly educational.
My mother who was a nurse back then, worked A LOT of overtime at Beverly Hospital that night!!! They were on trauma alert and I don't even remember her coming home until the day after.. she stayed overnight there because it was so crazy..😵💫😵💫😵😵
The movie was pretty good but it pales in comparison to Sebastian Junger's book. A true masterpiece, on par with the likes of Krakauer's Into Thin Air. God, what a read!
This story has always been so sad.. I never knew it was during Halloween though.. imagine how cold that water must of been of the coast of Gloucester... I remember some pretty damn cold night of trick or treating. Strange that their was such a strong hurricane. Unless it's normal in late October.
it's actually not normal to experience it in october. I feel like these type of hybrid tropical systems repeat themselves one way or another every couple of decades or so. like hurricane sandy in 2012 for example. the northeast rarely gets hurricanes. more so passing systems or tropical storms which could also be dangerous no matter how you categorize them. I agree that it's so sad. this was my favorite hybrid system to research and write a report on!
@@shayf-9 Knowing what I know now that I didn't back then these "hybrid weather systems" will go from not being normal to being normal. Making it an terrifyingly period of time to be living along America's eastern seaboard perhaps further inland too. The global elite have been subliminally telling us that a cataclysmic life altering cycle has been inflicting earth for god's knows how long. These people have been secretly hunkering down for a couple of decades before it really, really kicks off while telling us that global warming/climate change is our fault when in reality it never was. These are the subliminal messages: *The Day after Tomorrow* *2012* *Sunshine* *All space rock movies* *Polar Storm* *Knowing* *The 12 Disasters of Christmas* *Moonfall* *The Core* *Melancholia* (I HOPE THIS ONE DOESN'T HAPPEN 😱) The Mayans of Mesoamerica were not a primitive culture of people. Their calendar is way different than the one we use in modern times. They are not wrong
Great documentary. Watching this exactly 30 years after the event. Crazy. And I wish the history Channel was amazing again. The channel is trash now. These types of docs are nostalgic!
I was in Bermuda just a day ahead of Grace on my honeymoon. The effects hang around for most of my stay there-an P in the A..... to say the least but heard nothing of "The Perfect Storm" til we got home back in Boston.
This was a great. One criticism though is leading w/ forecasting failures of in the southeast. The high end hurricanes of 1938 & 1953 that pulverized New England would’ve been a better opening.
I agree with others here who observed that it would have been better had Hollywood not hyped the story of the Andrea Gail. They disgraced the memory of Captain Billy Tyne and his crew, by making it appear they knowingly steamed into a deadly storm. Why not tell the true story, of how they were out at sea for over a month by the time the storm hit? I'm glad I read Junger's book after seeing the film and got to learn the truth about Billy Tyne and the crew of the Andrea Gail.
Excellent comment. Well said. Granted, Hollywood did do a disservice to the account. However, Hollywood is big business that's all about entertainment, not to educate. You can sit there and pick apart all the exaggerations, distortions and falsehoods about the movie all you want. At the end of the day, Hollywood isn't interested in the truth or facts. They're interested in box office receipts, how many butts they can put in seats and of course profits. It's not just with the Perfect Storm, but countless other movies that were based on true stories. The general public has been mentally conditioned to accept such exaggerations, half truths, fabrications, distortions and falsehoods as reality.
@@thegreatdivide8684 You are correct, unfortunately. Lucky for us, there is the book and excellent documentaries such as this one. Thank you for posting this. I was a freshman in college when the Halloween Gale hit and heard about the Andrea Gail. Here in the NYC area, the storm was little more than wind and clouds. I've been captivated by this storm and the story of the Andrea Gail for a long time.
@@dontcallmeshirley3779 Thank you for your reply and your kind words. I believe I was visiting my grandparents in Florida at the time of the 1991 Halloween Gale. I did hear something about it and how it substantially damaged the Summer home of then President George H W Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine. That was it. It was vague and sketchy. When The Perfect Storm hit the silver screen in 2000, my girlfriend at the time dragged me out to see it. I was blown away at the movie and became a fan of it. I would later buy Sebastian Junger's book of the same name. I was blown away by the book and became a fan of it ever since. I enjoy the book more than the movie. Goes into such meticulous detail, plus Junger's extraordinary acumen at storytelling. I'm glad you like the documentary. It came out a year before the movie. I find it odd that they didn't mention Junger nor his book.
Civil War historian Gary Gallaher in some of his lectures goes into great detail about "history vs. memory." In his opinion people are influenced by a straight to video dvd about a historical topic than by what all historians ever wrote about it. His topic was Gettysburg in general but it also applies to just about anything else a movie's been made about it; the same applies here.
Ya know how Hollywood has to make everyone in everything over the top characters, I feel like captain Billy got a really poorly written character rendition in the movie. They definitely took creative liberties with a lot of the events in the movie. I was curious about what really happened because I was only 9 when it happened, found this video. Agree with you 💯
@@bravo1495 Nobody knows what happened out there when Andrea Gail disappeared into the sea. WB had greenlit the film at that point. Junger as basically an advisor. Since he was a resident of Gloucester at that time. Since WB bought rights to the book and they agreed on Wolfgang Peterson. Big studio like WB couldn’t just cancel it especially when you get Clooney, Wahlberg, Manstrentonio and Diane Lane among them all signed on.
@@SilentDanDisney oh hell no I wouldn't have wanted it cancelled, just thought the film made Billy come across as an asshole, and when I found this documentary was the first time I've seen something about that storm other than the movie, so it was cool to see some real footage and information about it because again, I was like 9 years old in '91 and don't much remember it.
@@bravo1495 When I was in Middle School the film was pretty easy to watch. The sequence of Andrea Gail sinking looking at it from my perspective now it’s hard to watch. One thing Junger was afraid of, saying in a interview that Wolfgang thought he was gonna have all six of the crew survive. If that happened he’d have to go back to Gloucester and tell Ethel Shatford that in the film they survive to when in real life her son and rest of crew didn’t come home. Basically what Junger said was change their names. Wolfgang didn’t do that Thank God.
Those sailboats should have heeded the warning, asking the Coast Guard to risk their lives is ludicrous. The mariners, are on their own. They didn't heed, it's their fault. 👿😈😠😡
Wow this documentary is old! Linda Greenlaw looks like she's in her early 30s here, she's in her 60s now. She was Captain of the swordboat Hannah Boden, which is the sister boat of Captain Billy Tyne's swordboat Andrea Gale. Her and Billy Tyne were good friends.
I never could understand why people in small boats and sail boats go out onto the high seas . 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 You don't stand A chance in a small boat, it becomes A bathtub toy, nothing more. 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😱😱😱😱
I can’t believe the Tamaroa didn’t sink in 100 ft seas. That’s crazy when they pull them aboard he said the boy could be 80 above him and in a second 89 below him absolutely insane. True hero’s.
@@thegreatdivide8684The Tamaroa was in a much calmer area of the storm, she maybe only saw 20-30 foot seas. Only the Andrea Gail, which was practically in the storm centre, would have seen the 100-footers
@@pc_buildyb0i935 That's a good point. Even 20-30 foot seas is treacherous for a hardy ship like the Tamaroa. What the Andrea Gail and her crew went through was beyond human comprehension. I don't think anyone would live to tell the tale when going against towering waves as high as a ten story building would. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 10 foot seas on Lake Superior November 1975.
"Andrea Gail" ... I remember the movie... The waves were sick. I didnt know it was based on a real storm, though (lil' ol' me lives way off in Europe) ...
My house was right on the seawall, opened the sliding glass doors, step on the deck which butted right up against the seawall, at high tide I'd dive off the wall, my gf said we should leave before the storm but I said we'd be okay, we had a roast cooking on the oven, the waves were crashing hard against the seawall with high tide 4 hours away, I wanted to experience it, the waves started crashing onto the roof, green seawater running down the windows, it was beautiful but then a wave brought a boulder that crashed through the glass sliding doors, time to go but we couldn't get out, the street were flooded on both sides, I backed the car up across the street as far as I could, we had front row seats to the waves crashing over the house into the telephone poles, blue sparks running up and down the poles, then the waves started ripping the house apart, the next morning I stepped into the foundation, nothing left, not one spoon, washer dryer, air conditioners, pictures, Nothing, we walked the beach, not one splinter of wood. The perfect storm perfectly swept away Everything we owned. Marshfield, Mass. 1991. Love you Carol wherever you are.
I get this on my feed today, Thurs, 9-26. On the eve of getting Hurricane Helene 🌀 's remnants in sw ohio. Oh, the timing! Edit: we very much need the rain, we're almost to severe drought status.
The narrator states that the only cat 5 to hit the U.S. was the 1935 Fla Keys storm, this is incorrect as both Camille (1969) and Andrew (1992) were both cat 5s at the time of landfall
We can't forget Michael. This documentary came out in 1999. It's kinda strange and inexplicable why they didn't include Hurricane Camille, a memorable one. Andrew was upgraded to a Category 5 in 2002 based on reevaluation of the structural damage by engineers. Some of the information in this documentary is outdated.
I'm trying to find the video of these guys in the storm.. I think it is "I wonder' or 'I shouldn't be Alive' channels. .it was better than a movie.. but I am unable to find it now. I hope they didn't take it down.
You're looking for the TV series "I Shouldn't Be Alive". The episode The Perfect Storm was in season 6. It was the last episode of it's final season before that series was canceled. Saving the best for last I guess.
Missing the old History Channel is why we have RUclips!
Ah, the good old days when History Channel is what I watched from morning til night.
Yeah grew up watching it with my dad as a child now it's not as fun to watch
Im grateful the history channel was this well produced and had actual pertinent history to document when I was growing up. I learned so much being glued to the tv watching the history channel instead of mtv…
Me too. I grew up on stuff like this and learned so much from it.
When hip-hop videos got filled up with bootie twerking so many people were disgusted by it MTV took a nosedive they never recovered from. Oh well.
Yup. Me as well. Watched it all the time. My fav pastime in school was catching errors history teachers made & arguing them into admitting it lol. Looking back though, good teachers for allowing the debates.
GAWD, I miss the old History Channel!!
Back when the History channel was severely underrated
Back when the History Channel had decent programming.
Yes indeed I be all in it
Back when it was belittled as "The Hitler Channel." Much truth in the saying "you don't know what you've got until you lose it.'
Now we get day long pawn stars marathons for pearl harbor anniversaries
And under appreciated
Back when the History Channel was worth watching.
That's history 😅
Truth
This was way better than the movie
No it was not.
What immense courage in the face of such adversity. I remember, I'd been to a secluded part of the beach in Bombay at night time and despite the sea being calm, got a panic attack over the fear of an imaginary rogue wave and the darkness. Just ran back and haven't visited the beach ever since.
I remember this storm. I’d driven from my home in Cleveland on the 26th to stay with my cousin in Boston after she’d had surgery. I planned to return on the 31st when her sister would fly in from Arlington, VA. Obviously, it never happened. I was stuck in Boston and the flight from Dulles was cancelled. Just as well, because there’s no way I would have made it to the airport! My cousin’s house lost some siding and one window in the hall was broken when a tree came down, just brushing the side of the house. The yard was flooded enough to require reseeding in the Spring, but overall, it came out not bad. The basement that had been leak sealed that summer stayed perfectly dry. I got the kerosene camping lanterns and Coleman stove from my car--I stored my camping gear in the spare tire and wheel well sections--and we did just fine. Loretta had a Ben Franklin woodstove in the front room and firewood in the garage. We hung blankets to cordon off the room and lived downstairs, Lor on the couch, and I slept on the floor. Both Loretta and Christina are gone now; it’s only me, two nephews, and a grandniece left of a once very large family. I’m the “old auntie.”
Thanks 'auntie' reading your adventure was just like being there with all of you. Your family, in life, battled the forces of death together and won. You are so fortunate to have lived a rewarding life.
I remember when the History Channel actually gave us history instead of reality tv.
Exactly when did this happen and how is reality TV history?
I have never ever seen such brave and courageous men as those coast guard rescue swimmers. Wow. Feel so bad for the one that didn't make it. Bless also that boat captain who refused to abandon those men!!
They were actually air force pararescuemen from the 106 resuce wing. The man who didnt make it was Rick Smith. May he rest in peace.
@@funkyforest9102 Thanks for the info. God Bless those heroic men. Nice to know what wing they were from. I'm so sorry for Rick Smith and his family.
@@funkyforest9102 Reading the book 'The Perfect Storm' shows us how hard and demanding the selection process is for these pararescuemen. The ones who make it are almost super-human. They are true heroes.
We lived in Minnesota in 1991 and that weekend we had a massive blizzard that dropped massive snow and so cold. The kids quick got trick or treating in and then all he'll broke loose. This makes so much sense now. Thank you Weather Channel.
I remember this storm. I lived in Eastern Passage just outside of Dartmouth Nova Scotia just 100 feet from the ocean, and the day after we went out to take a look, and we saw large boulders on the main road. These boulders were very heavy. Just goes to show you how bad it was. I don't remember ever seeing something like that before.
I live on Mount Desert Island, Maine. I too remember this storm
I remember the real-life Perfect Storm. Even though I was only 4 at the time, I was out trick-or-treating in it. I still remember the pouring rain and howling wind. That was in Rhode Island.
When you say boulders, does that mean out of the sea or one's already on land?
@@tammysims8716 What I meant was that I lived on the coast at the time of the storm, and after the storm I walked across my street to take a look around, and I saw large boulders were thrown over a 20 foot embankment along the shoreline.
It was the craziest thing I have ever seen.
@JustAllinOneResource That sounds really scary. I love the Atlantic Ocean and especially in the North East with those old lighthouses and the craggy shorelines where the waves have crashed upon those rocks since time immemorial. Hey, thanks for responding to my question. I'm glad you survived the storm!.
In my opinion Fireman & Coast guard personnel are the toughest people that walk the earth. What an incredible story
Define the word "tough!!". How do you know if you're "tough??". What's the criteria...in your opinion, because every opinion will vary!! I say military personnel are tough!
Nah, Cameraman are the toughest
@@bigdee8189Tough is a mindset. The ability to think and act past fear, past personal risk & not allow despair to pull you under. I call it “crisis mode,” you see it in a lot of first responders too. If they’re good ones.
Oh mannn, this was intense. Major respect for the rescuers, and Linda Greenlaw is definitely kickass.
This documentary is amazing. I wish I could find more with this level of quality and interest.
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I was a Senior in Gloucester High School when this storm came along….. 32 years ago now. I’ve seen some serious stuff in my time…. NOTHING compares to this storm. Nothing. The stuff I saw happen those 2 days and nights will live with me til the day I die….. I watched 40 foot waves TEAR HOMES from the foundations and shatter them to pieces….. I watch landscapes get reformed!!! Granite rocks that had stood for thousands of millennia…… shattered under the constant heavy blows of the ocean….. THE OCEAN IS DEADLY in ways most never understand. There are memorials in my town to the thousands who have died at Sea never to be returned…..
I was living in Gloucester at the time too in a townhouse at the edge of the outer harbor across from Ten Pound Island & just down from Niles Beach. You can see it in the background during the opening credits of The Perfect Storm (white building w/red roof).
I watched the neighbors patio get washed away & remember how sections of Atlantic Rd were washed away after the waves picked up the huge boulders & slammed them onto the road & caused it to break up. Parts of the road were just gone & houses that used to be across the street from the ocean were suddenly just feet from the water. Storm scared me enough that I moved back home to Kentucky just 7 weeks later.
Try living in south Louisiana where hurricanes are just a way of life. We’re used to dealing with cat 4, cat 5 hurricanes. We get the brute force of hurricanes bc of how hot and humid the weather is and how warm the waters are. And it’s just the norm to everyone. But when the north east coast experiences a storm that is barely categorized as a cat 1 hurricane, it gets extremely blown out of proportion. Example: “Superstorm Sandy”. It was barely a cat 1 hurricane when it made landfall up in jersey, and people treated it like it was the “storm of the century”. I can only imagine if a hurricane that was barely a category 3 ever made landfall up in the northeast, it would be considered “Armageddon”
Granite shattered by saltwater? lol,right billy!😂
water moved huge boulders,lol,right billy!😂
This storm was so big and strong that it forced a Gulf low pressure system all the way up to Minnesota where I was living at the time. It gave us a Halloween blizzard that dumped 3 feet of snow and subzero temperatures followed for almost a month. Temperatures were 40 degrees below normal, and roads were closed for more than a week. The Perfect Storm caused this by forcing the Gulf Low north, the first and only time that has happened here.
Thank you for explaining this. I had always wondered why there were these two very extreme weather events in such a particular period of time. It seemed unlikely. And while late October is absolutely when one expect Nor'easters, and also final hurricanes and they do sometimes combine, as with Sandy., but the storm in Minnesota seemed hard to fathom.
Moat of my family are New Englanders, one family member went to college at Carlton in the 50s, and stayed out there. But I don't know when people where you live expect the winter storms to start - late Oct seemed early to me.
I have never heard anyone else put together these series of outlandish weather systems. It is fascinating hearing from you what happened. Thanks again.
My jaw dropped when I found this "Halloween Storm" of 1991 wasn't our blizzard in Minnesota but "The Perfect Storm" from the movie. I had no idea they happened at the same time, or that they were related at all. How could that blizzard have been a mere footnote? How many people died in The Perfect Storm? 13? The Halloween Blizzard killed 22. I think it's fair to say Minnesota alone got hit harder than New England. It was the heaviest snowfall from a single storm in Minnesota history, more than the Armistice Day Blizzard, and more than the Super Bowl Blizzard of 1975. But before the snow fell here in the Cities, we got a few inches of ice. That ice was buried under 4 feet of snow by the end of November, with a few freeze-thaw cycles to thicken it and toughen it. We had to wait until very late in the spring for the snow pack to melt enough to expose the ice so it could start melting. Most side streets were like moguls on a ski slope that whole winter. Snow plows were almost useless - they dug up a chunk of ice here and there, making the roads almost undrivable - all winter!
@@greenman6141 We never get the real heavy storms that early in the year. That storm was unique. Think of the "gales of November" that came early (on November 10) and sank the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. That was a low called a panhandle hooker. (They form over the TX/OK panhandle region, move east, then "hook" up north to the Great Lakes area, sucking a bunch of Gulf moisture up with them.) If those storms hook a little to the left, that's when we get our big early season blizzards, like the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940. (The January 1975 Super Bowl Blizzard was a panhandle hooker too, only not so early.)
@@beenaplumber8379 Truly fascinating. I know nothing about the systems that hit Minnesota. My cousins who grew up there would tell us that the summers could be very hot and humid, and the winters so so snowy that they shook their heads and laughed - as one does when something is really outrageous.
Based on my zero knowledge, I'd always thought those gales of November had to do with cold Canadian air coming over the still relatively warmer waters of the Great Lake..
Even the names of the weather systems...panhandle hooker...are fascinating. Thanks for posting!
Meanwhile, Halloween night 1991 we had a freak snow storm and a blizzard down here in New Mexico. The snow continued the next day. I didn't have to go to work because of the roads. This is little village/town called Tularosa NM. Were at the base of the Sacramento mountains in the high desert.3 nights and 2 days of constant snow and wind. That is how badass this storm really was. The following monday or Tuesday was when I heard about the Andria Gail being missing in the seas. The storm was amazing but losing men to the sea was so sad.
The coast guard are heroes. They deserve our respect and honor.
Yes!!! Very brave ❤️
Fuck them
Absolutely! God bless them.
@@jamesmiller4085 have fun drowning :)
@@jamesmiller4085 I bet you're one that would complain if nobody helped you aren't you? I would guess you would also say nah nah I don't need no help ever. I bet your opinion would change if that coast guard was the only thing between you and the dark embrace of death wouldn't you?
This was also called THE PERFECT STORM and I have the book about it written by Sebastion Junger.
Great book
@@ryannance9673Fantastic book! I just finished reading it 5 mins ago and came to youtube to find related documentaries
Great documentary! Got chills with that last line! "This we do so that others may live" Thank you for this really good post.🤗
Thank you for your compliments and kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the documentary.
The storm with no name, I remember I had such a hard time closing my car door, nevermind being out at sea! Very sad they didn’t make it hime
I know I’ve watched this more than once. Every time I find some new, amazing fact. The fact they called out additional rescue units to rescue the rescuers somehow got by me before.
"This we do so others may live." A perfect and fitting end to this documentary.
The path was somewhat similar to the 1938 Hurricane in that it came inland again, across Eastern Long Island, up the coast of New England into the Maritimes of Canada before losing strength. My parents and grandparents, aunts, uncles all have vivid, sometimes scary memories of it. My mother was riding with her mother, younger brother, and grandpa at the wheel and they got blown across the Motor Parkway, nearly toppling sideways. Somehow, grandpa got the tires out of the mud and they were able to reach their apartment in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. On Long Island, Dad stayed with his sister at their Aunt and Uncle’s home in Port Jefferson. The house was high on the top of a steep hill and the harbor below washed two blocks into the downtown area, the ferry tore from its mooring ending up smashing into the side of the Post Office. Portions of Long Island were months without power and phone service.
Makes me nostalgic for when the History Channel was about history… and when only one Category 5 Hurricane had ever made landfall in the USA
Well done, documenta
y! I remember that day clearly as if Grace hit yesterday. I was in N.H. I have to say that barometric pressure affects animals and alters humans temperaments. Anxiety and unusual moods. I left N.H. on the 31st. I love storms..... but Grace was relentless and terrifying. So much loss. So many lives lost. My heart broke. Thank you Coast Guard and all who risked their lives saving others. Respect 🙏
Fun fact: The weather bureau's director Willis Moore, implemented a new policy to block any/all warnings about hurricanes from Cuba due to post Spanish-American war tensions. They still refused updates, insisting the hurricane would keep north into Florida. This was even after the Galveston hurricane had left Cuba and their weather service (one of the best in the world at the time) forecasted the hurricane to continue west toward the Texas coast. I'm honestly shocked he wasn't jailed or hung for this decision that ultimately cost the lives of up to 6,000-12,000 people
Good observation. You might say it was a crime against humanity. The guy politicized the weather bureau and it caused the greatest natural disaster in US history. It was a tragedy of epic proportions.
Like letting Pearl Harbor happen when they knew hours ahead of the attack a Japanize small submarine was spotted in the harbor. Life's cheap to some people in power.
Sort of like the hurricane heading towards Alabama hahaha. Amazing how the weather can change with a magic marker. 😆
Our house got washed out to sea, literally everything except the foundation, me and my gf stayed too long, I was mesmerized st the waves crashing over the roof, it was kinda beautiful, green water running down the windows, then a wave picked up boulder and it crashed through the sliding glass doors and that was it, we had to go, now I'm the car it's flooded on both sides, we can't get out, so I backed the car away as far as I could and we spent 10 hours in the car watching he house be washed away, waves were crashing on the tr telephone pole wires sparking blue up and down the lines, we survived, luckily. 1991 Marshfield, Mass.
Wow, what an event to live through. I've never experienced anything like that, and I grew up in tornado alley.
RIP Rick Smith (Possibly Millard Jones of the Perfect Storm) and the crew of the Andrea Gail.
I remember when they showed at its hight, the clouds touched Africa, Europe, England and Maine. I can still remember that picture.
Wow that's incredible
Uncanny how similar Grace was to Sandy: 1. Impacted the same side of the US. 2. Impacted nearly on the same date as Sandy, about 21 years prior. 3. Became a hybrid storm 4. Went west despite forecasts of it going out to sea. 5. Ended up being 1000+ miles across
Good observation. All true.
I thought the whole deal with Sandy is it was forecast to go west, and there were all kinds of evacuation orders and even a curfew ordered in New York City, but nobody could believe it because of a false alarm (although Vermonters wouldn't say so) a few years before, so a lot of people refused to evacuate and then it really WAS as bad as all the warnings?
Weather forecasts were tremendously better in 2012 than 1991. They were comparing it to The Perfect Storm and calling it Frankenstorm on the way in. They had satellite imagery in much higher resolution, so they could see it was going to hit the boreaster and expand, plus the low to the west that would draw it in instead of the jet stream bouncing it away like they usually do.
@@ellenbryn Sandy was forecast to curve into NJ about a week in advance, as a hurricane transitioning to an extra tropical storm ( post tropical ), this would cause hurricane force winds as far east as Massachusetts. The biggest impacts were felt in New Jersey and New York, but affects were felt elsewhere the I-81 corridor was subject to blizzard conditions in WVA and Virginia.
Great documentary 👍👍
If you enjoyed this, watch the move “The Perfect Storm”.
After production, they were told a terrifying fact.
The final wave shown.....the “villain” should of been 20 feet taller.
Yea. That’s how bad the storm was. Hollywood even underestimated it!
Yikes.
NO WAY! 😲 I pray it was quick. Can you imagine the fear. The knew what was coming.
The boat was 75 feet long. The wave was nearly double the boat, so it was well over 100 feet at the end of the movie.
Weather buoys in the area measured maximum wave heights of 100 feet in the storm, that's it.
@J Jj It's not impossible that they were sunk by a giant wave, but it isn't likely that they were. Sebastian Junger notes that the Andrea Gail had a reputation around Gloucestor for being a pretty tough boat, not to mention the similar fate that befell another boat during a similar situation some 10 years earlier.
To quote Junger on the circumtance of the boat being brought down quickly, "the 55-foot Fairwind didn't flip until winds hit 100 knots and the waves were running 70 feet. A more likely scenario is that Billy manages to get through the 10 o'clock weather spike but takes a real beating".
I think it's more like what we see in the movie up to the wave. The boat was likely just beaten down over a prolonged period of time, until she couldn't take anymore and went down.
It also doesn't seem super likely she'd have been rolled. With some 60,000-odd pounds of ballast in the lowest part of the boat (the fishold), she'd likely roll and right herself like in the film, even being hit from some of the bigger waves.
It's also not confirmed but a few witnesses claim to have possibly heard a mayday call from the Andrea Gail around the 30th of October, well into the last few dying breaths of the storm, where conditions weren't nearly what they were before
@J Jj There may be another radio transmission after that from the Andrea Gail. That was Tyne on Oct 28th, about 4 hrs after they'd been in the storm.
There are reports from both the Jenny&Doug and the Eishin Maru 78 (both reasonably close to the Andrea Gail's last reported position) of hearing a mayday call on Oct 30th, when the waves were only about 15-20ft. The 100 footers only happened in the early morning of the 29th, but by the 30th, the storm had died down to far more manageable conditions.
Weather buoys 44137 and 44139 both reported the 100 footers in the general area of the Andrea Gail, but if it's true that the two boats I mentioned really did pick up a mayday from the Andrea Gail on Oct 30th, there's no way the boat was hit by one of those monsters, as it wouldn't have survived to make a mayday call a full 24hrs later.
I think there's a TON of strong evidence (some of which I haven't mentioned yet) that indicates the boat was just slowly worn down by the storm.
Amazing how the USCG crews performed so well under such conditions.
The book by Sebastian junger is brilliant and having listened to him many times I'm convinced he would be a great president
Yeah, I agree. Junger is a terrific author, very adept with a pen to formulate his ideas. His book, "The Perfect Storm: Man Against The Sea" is a masterpiece.
I just finished the book. It was superb. I've since been watching documentaries about the Perfect Storm (The 1991 Halloween Gail). The strength & courage of these men & women, the 3 weather systems colliding to become one in the Atlantic. Eye opening & very intriguingly educational.
@@katrinalassberg5649I just finished reading it a few minutes ago! it was excellent. I couldn't put it down.
The power of someone that can see positive and remain strong and positive in bad situations is awsome.
My mother who was a nurse back then, worked A LOT of overtime at Beverly Hospital that night!!!
They were on trauma alert and I don't even remember her coming home until the day after.. she stayed overnight there because it was so crazy..😵💫😵💫😵😵
I miss this history channel i used to watch it all day long its definitely not the same
Its oct 26 today and i decided to watch the movie then this doc not knowing the date was exactly 29 yrs ago right now.. Wow... God bless them men
Great documentary thanks for sharing this.
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
The movie was pretty good but it pales in comparison to Sebastian Junger's book. A true masterpiece, on par with the likes of Krakauer's Into Thin Air. God, what a read!
And they came out around the same time. I remember reading both in record time.
This story has always been so sad.. I never knew it was during Halloween though.. imagine how cold that water must of been of the coast of Gloucester... I remember some pretty damn cold night of trick or treating. Strange that their was such a strong hurricane. Unless it's normal in late October.
it's actually not normal to experience it in october. I feel like these type of hybrid tropical systems repeat themselves one way or another every couple of decades or so. like hurricane sandy in 2012 for example. the northeast rarely gets hurricanes. more so passing systems or tropical storms which could also be dangerous no matter how you categorize them. I agree that it's so sad. this was my favorite hybrid system to research and write a report on!
@@shayf-9 it was because of the pinatubo eruption.
@@sammuelmccall56789 that was an aspect of this rare occurrence but not what triggered it
God I was only 6 when this happened but I remember this Halloween, I lived in kennebunk maine
@@shayf-9 Knowing what I know now that I didn't back then these "hybrid weather systems" will go from not being normal to being normal. Making it an terrifyingly period of time to be living along America's eastern seaboard perhaps further inland too. The global elite have been subliminally telling us that a cataclysmic life altering cycle has been inflicting earth for god's knows how long. These people have been secretly hunkering down for a couple of decades before it really, really kicks off while telling us that global warming/climate change is our fault when in reality it never was. These are the subliminal messages:
*The Day after Tomorrow*
*2012*
*Sunshine*
*All space rock movies*
*Polar Storm*
*Knowing*
*The 12 Disasters of Christmas*
*Moonfall*
*The Core*
*Melancholia* (I HOPE THIS ONE DOESN'T HAPPEN 😱)
The Mayans of Mesoamerica were not a primitive culture of people. Their calendar is way different than the one we use in modern times. They are not wrong
This is Monte Markham narrating. What a great voice for this kind of program.
The History Channel back when it was all about History and Knowledge.
Excellent documentary !
Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Great documentary.
Watching this exactly 30 years after the event. Crazy.
And I wish the history Channel was amazing again. The channel is trash now. These types of docs are nostalgic!
A high quality doc. A rear thing on RUclips.
Ah yes… that Halloween covered in snow. Got pictures of 7 yr old me all bundled up with a bag and a bundled up dad.
Thank you so much for sharing this. You rock 💯
You're welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
History Channel, I miss you. 😫
Such brave rescues
I was in Bermuda just a day ahead of Grace on my honeymoon. The effects hang around for most of my stay there-an P in the A..... to say the least but heard nothing of "The Perfect Storm" til we got home back in Boston.
I just realized the narrator of this program is actor Monty Markham. I saw this program over 20 years ago.
Wow, that was ana amazing telling of events. Such brave men!!
*Weathermen:* Hurricane Mitch is the strongest Hurricane to hit North America in 98.
*Hurricane Katrina:* Seven year itch.
We had a terrible ice storm that day in southern Minnesota. I don;t even remember the other storms that day.
I always thought that the history channel was one of the best shows, why do you feel that way 😮😮
You call the coastguard and then refuse to abandon your vessel? In 60ft waves?? Hell, I would never want to put SAR personnel in danger like that...
Ya crazy, the wife called it in. It was The stubborn husband that thought he could sail that crazy shit. Lol
They should've said, "ok, we're out of here."
He had others with him. And he cooperated after they declared manifest unsafe.
This was a great. One criticism though is leading w/ forecasting failures of in the southeast. The high end hurricanes of 1938 & 1953 that pulverized New England would’ve been a better opening.
I agree with others here who observed that it would have been better had Hollywood not hyped the story of the Andrea Gail. They disgraced the memory of Captain Billy Tyne and his crew, by making it appear they knowingly steamed into a deadly storm. Why not tell the true story, of how they were out at sea for over a month by the time the storm hit? I'm glad I read Junger's book after seeing the film and got to learn the truth about Billy Tyne and the crew of the Andrea Gail.
Excellent comment. Well said. Granted, Hollywood did do a disservice to the account. However, Hollywood is big business that's all about entertainment, not to educate. You can sit there and pick apart all the exaggerations, distortions and falsehoods about the movie all you want. At the end of the day, Hollywood isn't interested in the truth or facts. They're interested in box office receipts, how many butts they can put in seats and of course profits. It's not just with the Perfect Storm, but countless other movies that were based on true stories. The general public has been mentally conditioned to accept such exaggerations, half truths, fabrications, distortions and falsehoods as reality.
@@thegreatdivide8684 You are correct, unfortunately. Lucky for us, there is the book and excellent documentaries such as this one.
Thank you for posting this. I was a freshman in college when the Halloween Gale hit and heard about the Andrea Gail. Here in the NYC area, the storm was little more than wind and clouds. I've been captivated by this storm and the story of the Andrea Gail for a long time.
@@dontcallmeshirley3779 Thank you for your reply and your kind words. I believe I was visiting my grandparents in Florida at the time of the 1991 Halloween Gale. I did hear something about it and how it substantially damaged the Summer home of then President George H W Bush in Kennebunkport, Maine. That was it. It was vague and sketchy. When The Perfect Storm hit the silver screen in 2000, my girlfriend at the time dragged me out to see it. I was blown away at the movie and became a fan of it. I would later buy Sebastian Junger's book of the same name. I was blown away by the book and became a fan of it ever since. I enjoy the book more than the movie. Goes into such meticulous detail, plus Junger's extraordinary acumen at storytelling. I'm glad you like the documentary. It came out a year before the movie. I find it odd that they didn't mention Junger nor his book.
Civil War historian Gary Gallaher in some of his lectures goes into great detail about "history vs. memory." In his opinion people are influenced by a straight to video dvd about a historical topic than by what all historians ever wrote about it. His topic was Gettysburg in general but it also applies to just about anything else a movie's been made about it; the same applies here.
It was a good movie, and inspired many to research the true story and the men involved. I think you’re too demanding and uptight.
Hurricane grace, took out the Andrea Gail. Rip to the 6 fishermen
I wish they had used the facts in the story for the movie. They didn't go into the storm knowingly it started when they were on the way back.
Ya know how Hollywood has to make everyone in everything over the top characters, I feel like captain Billy got a really poorly written character rendition in the movie. They definitely took creative liberties with a lot of the events in the movie. I was curious about what really happened because I was only 9 when it happened, found this video. Agree with you 💯
@@bravo1495
Nobody knows what happened out there when Andrea Gail disappeared into the sea.
WB had greenlit the film at that point.
Junger as basically an advisor.
Since he was a resident of Gloucester at that time.
Since WB bought rights to the book and they agreed on Wolfgang Peterson.
Big studio like WB couldn’t just cancel it especially when you get Clooney, Wahlberg, Manstrentonio and Diane Lane among them all signed on.
@@SilentDanDisney oh hell no I wouldn't have wanted it cancelled, just thought the film made Billy come across as an asshole, and when I found this documentary was the first time I've seen something about that storm other than the movie, so it was cool to see some real footage and information about it because again, I was like 9 years old in '91 and don't much remember it.
@@bravo1495
When I was in Middle School the film was pretty easy to watch.
The sequence of Andrea Gail sinking looking at it from my perspective now it’s hard to watch.
One thing Junger was afraid of, saying in a interview that Wolfgang thought he was gonna have all six of the crew survive.
If that happened he’d have to go back to Gloucester and tell Ethel Shatford that in the film they survive to when in real life her son and rest of crew didn’t come home.
Basically what Junger said was change their names.
Wolfgang didn’t do that Thank God.
Most people who watch the movie also read the book. Besides, we all know movies change things to add drama. Those guys are legends.
Good find, to the one whom posted this 👍🏼
Thank you for your kind words and compliments.
I’m here after a coastal tour in Bar Harbor.
Those sailboats should have heeded the warning, asking the Coast Guard to risk their lives is ludicrous. The mariners, are on their own. They didn't heed, it's their fault. 👿😈😠😡
The old history channel still exists , they just call it History 1 ..... Its still out there
When you were listing the large hurricanes that hit the U.S, I'm surprised you didn't list Camille, Gulf Port 1967, Cat 5, sustained winds at 200mph.
Who else is from Long Island? I’m currently doing a job right next to gabreski airport this week. Very interesting
The best story i ever heard in my life.
Scarier than a Steven King movie ....🙃😵😵😵😵😵😱😱😱😱
Makes our current online arguments over Twitter seem so childish.
Most argument in general are childish
I'm rooting for Mother nature to win. People always disappoint and disgust.
Wow this documentary is old! Linda Greenlaw looks like she's in her early 30s here, she's in her 60s now. She was Captain of the swordboat Hannah Boden, which is the sister boat of Captain Billy Tyne's swordboat Andrea Gale. Her and Billy Tyne were good friends.
I never could understand why people in small boats and sail boats go out onto the high seas . 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 You don't stand A chance in a small boat, it becomes A bathtub toy, nothing more. 😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😵😱😱😱😱
And we call movie actors and sports figures heroes... Reality check! The real deal is almost beyond belief.
I call those people entertainers.
@@animula6908 Yes. And that's all.
Nobody calls them heroes. I don't know where you're getting that from. I assume your ass to attempt to make some big statement.
that storm was one bad mamma jamma... kindly note the DVD perfect storm was the first DVD I ever bought 😎
I can’t fathom that the Tamaroa was in that storm for more than 24 hrs
She was in a much calmer area of the storm, seeing maybe 20-30 foot seas
Truly, some of the most dangerous jobs and situations in the world.
The Andrea Gail had zero chance
Most sources say that no one was killed when the train was washed from the tracks..
I can’t believe the Tamaroa didn’t sink in 100 ft seas. That’s crazy when they pull them aboard he said the boy could be 80 above him and in a second 89 below him absolutely insane. True hero’s.
Yeah, those waves were monstrously huge. It's a miracle the Tamarora didn't sink.
It's a miracle 4 of the 5 men in that helicopter survived falling 60 feet to the water. Rest in peace Rick Smith.
@@thegreatdivide8684The Tamaroa was in a much calmer area of the storm, she maybe only saw 20-30 foot seas. Only the Andrea Gail, which was practically in the storm centre, would have seen the 100-footers
@@pc_buildyb0i935 That's a good point. Even 20-30 foot seas is treacherous for a hardy ship like the Tamaroa. What the Andrea Gail and her crew went through was beyond human comprehension. I don't think anyone would live to tell the tale when going against towering waves as high as a ten story building would. The Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 10 foot seas on Lake Superior November 1975.
Reminds me of Sandy. May the crew of the Andrea Gail RIP.
I think October is the worst month for storms. We are just going into it now.
God damn i miss the history channel
100 knots is 115 mph
The Perfect Storm, a collision of 3 monsters ... Run and hide 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
"Andrea Gail" ... I remember the movie... The waves were sick. I didnt know it was based on a real storm, though (lil' ol' me lives way off in Europe) ...
My house was right on the seawall, opened the sliding glass doors, step on the deck which butted right up against the seawall, at high tide I'd dive off the wall, my gf said we should leave before the storm but I said we'd be okay, we had a roast cooking on the oven, the waves were crashing hard against the seawall with high tide 4 hours away, I wanted to experience it, the waves started crashing onto the roof, green seawater running down the windows, it was beautiful but then a wave brought a boulder that crashed through the glass sliding doors, time to go but we couldn't get out, the street were flooded on both sides, I backed the car up across the street as far as I could, we had front row seats to the waves crashing over the house into the telephone poles, blue sparks running up and down the poles, then the waves started ripping the house apart, the next morning I stepped into the foundation, nothing left, not one spoon, washer dryer, air conditioners, pictures, Nothing, we walked the beach, not one splinter of wood. The perfect storm perfectly swept away Everything we owned. Marshfield, Mass. 1991. Love you Carol wherever you are.
*WHAT THE PERFECT STORM HAS SOME KIND OF COPYRIGHT ON ITS NAME!!!???!!!*
Heroic Americans, in the Helo and on the Cutter. I hope the young men 30 years later have some of that stuff in their veins.
It’s not looking great at the moment.
I get this on my feed today, Thurs, 9-26. On the eve of getting Hurricane Helene 🌀 's remnants in sw ohio. Oh, the timing!
Edit: we very much need the rain, we're almost to severe drought status.
Cape cod called it the Halloween horror.
The narrator states that the only cat 5 to hit the U.S. was the 1935 Fla Keys storm, this is incorrect as both Camille (1969) and Andrew (1992) were both cat 5s at the time of landfall
Yes, that is true.
@@thegreatdivide8684 And Michael also...least we forget
We can't forget Michael. This documentary came out in 1999. It's kinda strange and inexplicable why they didn't include Hurricane Camille, a memorable one. Andrew was upgraded to a Category 5 in 2002 based on reevaluation of the structural damage by engineers. Some of the information in this documentary is outdated.
@@thegreatdivide8684 hurricane Andrew was In 1992 we was without lights here In Louisiana for a whole week .
What about Isaac in 1900
God bless the coast guard ❤️
Too much rain over paradise.
How high was the actual Wave
The one that sunk the Andrea Gail was about 100 feet high. About the height of a 10 story building.
I'm trying to find the video of these guys in the storm.. I think it is "I wonder' or 'I shouldn't be Alive' channels.
.it was better than a movie.. but I am unable to find it now. I hope they didn't take it down.
You're looking for the TV series "I Shouldn't Be Alive". The episode The Perfect Storm was in season 6. It was the last episode of it's final season before that series was canceled. Saving the best for last I guess.
Did anyone else think that that the very start was insects?! 😂
The Perfect Storm was written about this storm
That answers my question. I was in a boat with a fax machine. It called for 30mile winds. It was wrong. ✨