DONALD CROWHURST: MIND DEVOURED BY THE WAVES
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Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 - July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who disappeared while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race held in 1968-69. Soon after starting the race his boat, the Teignmouth Electron, began taking on water. Crowhurst secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions in an attempt to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually doing so. His ship's logbooks, found after his disappearance, suggest that the stress he was under and associated psychological deterioration may have led to his death.
Fucking hell, DK nearly killed me with "If it came out that Cthulhu was real I would shit" while I was chugging coffee.
It's turly shocking how mentally taxing being out at sea can be. i'd like to do an epic journey like this, but never alone.
The sea can be absolutely terrifying. There's videos you can watch of people who are working on merchant ships and oil rigs who are doing day watch shifts and night watch shifts, at night in the middle of the sea far away from the land it can be this utterly terrifying blackness where you can't even see the horizon. If there's lights, you can see a little bit around the ship or rig, but absolutely nothing beyond that.
Crowhurst was used to go on weekend excursions on his trimaran where even on the darkest of nights he could see the lights from shore and use those to navigate. This is a case of someone not understanding their limitations, and only having the barest amount of skills needed and then trekking out into some of the most hostile territory known.
It should be said that Crowhearst was absolutely not sound of mind prior to the race. If you response to your failing business is to enter a race to circumnavigate the globe solo while you are at most a hobbyist sailor you've gotta few screws loose already.
My theory for the call is that it forms a spectrogram revealing a code or words, also great episode, really nice not to wait a month for the next episode
Do you think the calls In the episodes are part if an arg?
God I always LOVE listening to y’all at night! Really helps set the vibes for the episode. This was a really unique episode, really enjoyed it!
I'll say that I can put my myself in his shoes, but only by opposition. I feel more crushed and paranoid the more there ARE people around. It's why I live alone 12mi outside a populated census area in Arizona.
Time to learn about more wild weird things
What could have also happened and why his writing became so erratic... is that he could have run out of water.
That takes a bad situation to the next level.
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you"
Hi all!
The "God's time" line reminded me of the Flannan Isles Lighthouse apocrypha
Gonna sound weird, but basically the recent hit song from “Loser Baby” from Hazbin Hotel. No, not in the same degrading way with a funny aspect, but in the need for companionship and belonging. This man found himself alone in the worst time of his life with his own insecurities, which led him to self destruction beyond what anyone could expect. The problem is not getting out of the hole, it’s trying to accept that you don’t deserve to be there in the first place. To him, the game was set and match, with no possibility of even gaining anything even from loosing. Even when he had contact with others, he was completely alone. So, just like the song, you always need someone to pull you out of that hole for the first step.
Another great one guys! Keep it up!
If you want a palate cleanser after this (delightful but depressing) episode, might I suggest y'all take a look into Joshua Norton the First, Emperor of these United States and Protector of Mexico?
13:00 Didn't know Siren Head had the studio's number. Or the capability of using a phone for that matter.
NEW SIGNAL POGGGGGGGS
An unlucky fool who suffered an unlucky fool's fate
Jesus, I remeber how uncanny only seeing see on the horizon ca be and how in can be very taxing on the mind of people. I can't imagine trying this alone. Edit: The constant background noise of the sea really became more and more chilling.
I feel that.The woods are my home, and they do the same for me. The quiet is serine and beautiful, until it suddenly becomes silently hostile with no way to know why.
33:02 its a magical place.
Audible gasp when I realized this had dropped! Here we go!
Cthulhu got him.
The Sea claims another for man's hubris
Sometimes the unknown is that way for a reason
You guys kinda started at the end on this one
Dose anyone else think these calls In the episode might be an arg?
Accounting for inflation and converted to USD, the prize would be about $138,000!🎉
Yes, the prize was a substantial sum for the time, in fact it was the main motivation for Crowhurst. He needed the money to pay off his debt and save his failing electronics business.
One more detail: the actual winner donated his prize to Crowhurst's family so at least they wouldn't be destitute without their father.
Whooooo! lets go!
Tragedy is an understatement here i think
Make more eps
For future reference: 13:01
Guys, I love you, but if you pronounce 'Chichester' like that ever again I'm coming over there and opening a Waffle House next to the station.
It's 'Chih-cheh-stir' not 'Chai-chester'!
It's said "Az-ores"
This is undoubtedly a situation where this man couldn't face the consequences and he ultimately ended up taking his own life at sea. I believe, however, if we consider the state of his writing, exposure is the primary reason he began to over fixate and blow up the consequences in his mind. To the point that taking his own life was a softer blow to his familial disgrace than owning up to and appealing to inexperienced naval ability. If you are on a boat like his, you are being cooked from sun up to sun down and it is absolutely bone chilling on the ocean at night.
I'm not naval guy or even a boat man but I don't see a single place to really ditch out of view of the sun for Crowhurst. His supply situation must have been awful as well. Unfortunate barely scratches the surface here but, that's all this was. An unfortunate situation that came from the product of a man caught in a lie.
Could you just stop with the nonsensical stuff and background noise, I get that you're trying to make this more of a storytelling, but it's just annoying. You've got a nice podcast with good hosts, but the unneccessary phone ringing and forced "immersion" just detracts from the experience. My two cents.
Agreed
Why do you care so much?
Want "real" shit with good hosts, detective ridiculous. This whole podcast is set on the wild and mysterious, its gonna be 90% nonsence