MADNESS AT SEA: The Lost Captain | Last Moments
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- Опубликовано: 28 янв 2021
- A fascinating tale of deception, guilt and madness at sea. Unusually, it was all captured in logbooks and tapes, but the man behind them all disappeared forever.
"Donald Charles Alfred Crowhurst (1932 - July 1969) was a British businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race. Soon after starting the race, his ship began taking on water and he wrote it would probably sink in heavy seas. He secretly abandoned the race while reporting false positions, in an attempt to appear to complete a circumnavigation without actually doing so. His ship's log books, found after his disappearance, suggest that the stress he was under and an associated psychological deterioration possibly led to his suicide.
Crowhurst's convoluted and ultimately tragic participation in the race has exerted a fascination over subsequent generations of commentators and artists. It has inspired a number of books, stage plays and films; among the latter a factual 2006 documentary Deep Water and the films Crowhurst (2017) and The Mercy (2017), in which his part is played by the actors Justin Salinger and Colin Firth, respectively. His innovative but ill-prepared boat, the Teignmouth Electron, ended its days as a dive boat in the Caribbean and its decaying remains can still be found in the dunes above a beach in the Cayman Islands."
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The next video is going to be: Why Hot Cheatoes are so good
Cliff young ultramarathon winner at 61 and farmer in australia would make a good tale from the bottle from a fellow irishman 🇮🇪🇮🇪
The man who won and donated to the Family is a damn hero.
He was a former Stevedore, who wasn't wealthy in any sense. He donated the money and went on to live a long successful life, because he knew what actually matters.
@@Paul-ie1xp success is an attitude bro straight up. This guy has it
How humble he is in the video segment at the end. You Sir are a true Gentleman.
When you read up his history on Wikipedia, "Due to a lack of money he had to interrupt his voyage for work in South Africa as Master of a coaster and stevedoring and was only able to complete it in 1967." is the sentence before succeeding in his record attempt.
all part of the game i suppose
Amateur sailor made it from the UK to Argentina alone with a defective untested boat… am I the only one that thinks that was a huge accomplishment in itself? Shit, I couldnt even cross a lake
@Adolf Hitler He said it him self that the boat was just leaking because it wasn't made properly
@Carson Wentz Please excuse him, sir. The gunshot wound on his head makes his thinking process a little... impaired.
12 years ahead of his government
@@ivnislykun lol yeah, with a name like that he's automatically a troll
Damn you guys didn't have to ROAST hitler like that
How ironic---he entered the race for the prize money, and his family got the prize money at the end, even if not won by him. So in a way, the race accomplished what he wanted it to accomplish.
He may not have won the race but its fair to say he won the game
@@__sm1441 Won the game? He died having cheated, lost, feeling humiliated, and thinking his family would lose their house. His family were hounded by reporters, a family was shattered, anguished for months not knowing if he was alive or dead, and Clare was devastated for decades. Oh but they got 5,000 pounds.
He also didn’t enter for the prize money. The prize money was nothing to the debt he fell into building his boat.
@@AveragePicker the Sunday times also equalled the donation. Adjusted for inflation thats nearly 200k pounds in today's money. Ultimately he took care of his family, far more important than the integrity of a boat race run by a news paper
@@__sm1441 Ok so decades of grief and the loss of a husband and father is worth 200k? WTF is wrong with you? He had a wife and four children, debt, the ship cost was leveraged against the business, and mortgage and you think 200k (which he wouldn’t have known about) is “he took care of his family?”
@@AveragePicker not saying its a positive outcome for the family... he said that the only way to win the game is by refusing to play, he took his own life and it resulted in the best possible outcome for his family given the circumstances even if he is responsible for those difficult circumstances. I just found it ironic that there was some truth in his words. If he had refused to play at the start it would've been the best outcome and by refusing to play at the end he was at least able to get his family out of their difficult situation
Mental Note: taking a multiple month voyage into the ocean completely alone when you are already suffering from depression is a bad idea.
You don't think
Or when you're just not capable of handling long periods alone.
For some people, hell is other people. For others, hell is their own company.
@@Skorpychan for others, it's all of the above
I love solitude
that one guy who turned into a crazy guro seemed like he got over it
Knox-Johnston is the real hero for donating the price to Crowhurst's family. What a lad!
Absolutely one of the boys
Imagine if he wouldve just given the truth without killing himself. Maybe knox wouldve donated to him anyways.
Yea man, you should check out his books.
@@jerrylindstrom3323 I think Knox did it because they didn't have anyone to support them financially after he killed himself.
@@Matt_10203 well yea but probably also bc of the tragedy of losing a family member in the same competition he was in
This fellow couldn't be completely inept as he did make it to South America. That's an accomplishment in itself. A shout out to the actual winner, a true gentleman.
Yeah really he was an amateur. I wouldn't have made it out of the harbor before I was sunk.
Every person with experience in whatever area once was at the point of having no experience. We have to start _somewhere_ and every jorney is a tale of mistakes we learn from. I'm no sailor, but I assume that one learns bluewater sailing by actually DOING bluewater sailing. So why not learn it on the way? Sure, starting the experience directly by sailing single-handed may not have been the safest way, but what do we learn when others make all major decisions for us? Sometimes stupid decisions are necessary to make better ones the next time - and a bit of luck to get through with it. We don't learn how to drive on a highway from the passenger seat, either.
@@___Chris___ Calm seas don't make a skilled sailor.
With that... Breaking records of which no man had ever achieved on a watercraft that is known for being unstable using untested (not just unproven, but untested) equipment that wasn't installed correctly... He committed suicide by simply beginning the race.
Oh congrats, he went west and hit a continent….and then asked a local where he was. I’m not sure I’d file that one as an accomplishment. All he had to do was go a broad general direction.
@@AveragePicker wow you talk like a guy who could do the same even without a boat, just swimming
I kinda want to hear the story of the guy that reached Nirvana, abandoned his daily life(family), sailed around the world twice, and ended up in Tahiti.
Dutch Van Der Linde kind of story
@@Houswalno he’d had to have had a PLAN for that to be the case.
@@Houswal Dutch's version is "we're living on a boat! HAHA I SOLD THE BOAT We're living on this island! I SOLD THE ISLAND OOPS WERE GETTING KILLED" etc
Yh that part was a tat bit confusinf thought it was all about Crowhurst... 😅
a philosophically minded French upperclass guy trying to find himself
Mr. Johnston is a downright good guy. That's $100k usd in today's value that he gave to Crowhurst's family. The world needs more folk like him.
at that time the average cost of a UK house was £4,000. TheTimes equalled his donation, so the family ended-up with £10,000. Enough for two houses and three cars in those days.
1st house I lived in late 1960s cost my dad 500 pounds
Let's be honest, amateur hour was the only one in the race because he needed the money. The rest had to be very well off to just go sailing for a couple years. The prize money was probably for nothing more than bragging rights. If there was a second and third that paid 2500 and 1000 then maybe you get some single guys with not much to their name to try and snatch some cash but even then that's highly unlikely. What did Ted Turner say about sailing? Something like comparing it to standing in the shower with only the cold running while tearing up money.
@@davehoward22Wow that's insane. In Canada, a house of 4 bedroom used to cost 10k$ Canadian. The first house I bought (2008) cost me 100k. But I had to sell it, with everything that I owned in 2017 because I had a workplace accident, and got a liver cirrhosis, surely because of the stress, or at least, not alcool related. I'm 48 now and I'm returning to school to be able to start again. It's incredible what damage was done to the economy in such a short amount of time.
That's incredible. The amount of damage that was done to the economy in a short amount of time. @@davehoward22
The best man won. What a truly good deed - giving his prize money to the ‘lost captains’ family so they wouldn’t lose their home.
Did the Sunday Times equal it as he said?
For me, that's the true revelation of this story: that Robin Knox-Johnson is a hero in every sense of the word. I aspire to be one tenth of the man he is. I'm so glad to see that he's still with us.
Robin Knox Johnson is a class act and a great sailor. Amazing story....
Mike👍🇨🇦
@@scottybaker13 I am not a 100% sure but I think they did....
@@michaellippmann4474 Thanks. They did infact match his donation. Mr. Johnson did it for all the right reasons but the paper did it more for publicity and to get the exclusive story from the Legend. Cheers
Just your reminder that Ocean Madness is not excuse for Ocean Rudeness.
"Hail Atlanta!"
Oh so that's where I left my cigar.
"Your student loans have been repaid?"
YES
manners over everything else
Clare Crowhurst said that had her husband returned home he would have been welcomed by a family that loved him.
Jesus...i couldve went without knowing that one...heartbreaking indeed. Sometimes pride turns men into ants...oftentimes infact.
@@jingalls9142 more than pride I'd say he probably felt trapped, had he returned empty-handed he would've lost basically everything, I haven't been there but that's probably something that makes a man do some wild stuff, the unfortunate reality of financial hardship
Anyone reading this that feels like they've lost everything should take note, it's never as bad as it can seem. Even if you have nobody, there are people out there that will still care and help, reach out and rebuild.
😔🙏
@@robin9793 Once I lost over 100k in savings in the space of 6 months and it can make you feel utterly useless, stupid, hopeless and depressed. I can't imagine what losing everything including your home must feel like especially if you have a family to provide for. I can totally understand the complete hopelessness he probably felt.
Honestly the man is an absolute legend even if he tried to cheat the race, he was an amateur who managed to navigate the cross the most dangerous ocean in the world in what amounted to three rowboats strapped together.
Its hard to blame him for his attempt at cheating. He thought of his family first, but his character was too good to go through with the deception. When faced with your family becoming homeless, who wouldn't do what it took to change their fate? What beautiful irony that his failure is what ultimately saved his family from ruin.
He wasn’t a legend. Trimarans weren’t unknown and the Atlantic was crossed by hundreds if not thousands of sailors every year. He had massive ego problems coupled with massive insecurities. He spent a huge portion of his life running away from problems, to the ultimate conclusion. Not a bad man, just a sad man.
@@albertbatfinder5240 had no idea thousands of people crossed it every year in three leaky canoes strapped together...
If you can't tell I'm being sarcastic
@@jblockman_59nunyabidnis68 my bad. I didn’t pick the sarcasm in your original comment because I was reading too many other posts that seemed to worship this guy. Makes me wonder how many of the “likes” are for the sarcasm! Cheers.
@@jblockman_59nunyabidnis68 You totally missed that guy's point.
One: IRL cosmic horror is way worse then anything written and two: that actaul winner was a fucking great dude.
Just posted, that the bloke was a proper gentleman to donate his winnings to the family
@@PastLight Given that everything else in this story was about loss of one form or another (life, family, boats, sanity, the other people who pulled out of the running, etc.) it just made that one bit of goodness shine out all more.
An era when there was no second or third place, no participation trophy. The ultimate 'reality show.'
whoever won that money and donated was truly a real one
Right? Right before his end that was some lovecraftian writing.
It was absolutely chilling to listen to.
"And it forced the Sunday Times to equal my donation" The chuckle he gave when he said that. A true gent.
Came here looking to see how many caught this
What does that mean?
@@giraffe1219 family got double pay and he seems awful chipper he guilted a corporation into paying out more money
@@nickabel8279 ahh, i didn't even get what he said there, all i hear is "anyway, 4th jkdbhjeab kjfghbg"
Y'know folk (quite rightly!) go on about the Brits and their attitudes toward some things or people, but a gent like that shows how one man can browbeat a pretty unapologetic newspaper into parting with a decent bit of cash,twice, just with a donation and a few words
A actress called Joanna Lumley did similar a few years ago in her campaign for Ghurka rights and benefits, stopping a government minister mid-sentence in a press conference, and making him change what he was saying! Just with a loud cough, a hard stare, then telling what he *should* be saying, and the poor guy just folded under her stern gaze and went along with her 🤣 it's a classic bit of telly, posh Brit Government minister finds himself completely outclassed by a even posher national treasure, he was lucky to get out of there with the shirt on his back 🤣
After the discovery of Crowhurst's empty trimaran the Teignmouth Electron was sold at auction and after passing through several owners and businesses the boat was beached on Cayman Brac in the Caribbean. I was diving/vacationing in Cayman Brac in the late 1990's when a local guide pointed this boat out, decaying away on the beach that was somehow "famous, so I snapped a quick photo and thought nothing more about it until I found out about this race and the circumstances. Being an avid sailor I found this story amazing!
It's incredibly sad that he felt suicide was his only way out. That others would not understand his reasons and eventually forgive him for it. But Knox-Johnston proved to be a true gentleman and an example for us all to live by.
Believe me, if you have depression or anxiety DO NOT sail single-handed!
What about both?
I get seasick like a mother fucker and can't get over it, so that's out of the question. My god though, I can't even imagine the sheer boredom out of being completely alone on the open seas for months at a time. Seriously, what the fuck do you do to keep yourself entertained?
@@nightshadehelis9821 became your own best friend
@@nightshadehelis9821 Don't worry, after the third day all your friends show up to join you.
Well, there goes that idea of a hobby
I would have just stayed in Argentina and called it a day.
100%
Hell, maybe you can stay with hitler on his private beach too
Right it was the like the 50s so he could of met hitler
He was too zeroed in on his goal. Should have pulled out honestly, he'd still have completed a navigation to a different continent with no experience
A British in Argentina...
His misadventure is the living definition of 'bitten off more than he could chew', however, his making it all the way to Argentina in an untested boat suffering from massive defects. That's an accomplishment in and of itself, and he should be recognized for it.
I've become absolutely fascinated with the Crowhurst story and it's a very simple one. He began to fake his progress, couldn't stop faking it and slowly went mad. His last recordings are chilling.
I actually teared up when it was said Knox-Johnston had donated the prize money to that poor family. Such honour! What a great man.
Thank God you said actually instead of literally.😃😂🤣😆
@@MrCashgold by the sound of it ‘literally’ would be accurate.
@@bobafetting6373 nah man, literally means word for word. The word (actually) if you notice has the word act in it. As in action (the tears). But literally does mean actually. So its somewhat interchangeable. The "act" is key in this instance.
Shows what kind of a person he is, he looked at it as he wasnt technically losing anything but that family would be losing everything. Wish more people were like him.
@@davidca96 Yeah, they don't make em like they use to. Humanity is a shell of its former self. Time for another deluge...
This story is told in detail in “A voyage for Madmen,” which is told from the perspective of each of the journals of the men competing in the first Golden Globe. It’s a fascinating read, even if you’re not a sailor.
There are so many books worth reading. This is surely one of them.
This video seems like it may have been largely based on “The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst,” another great read.
Most of the race participants wrote a book about it. There’s a good one by Robin Knox-Johnston, the winner. My favorite is La Longue Route by Bernard Moitessier. (Beautifully written, poetic and philosophical. I don’t know if the English translation captures all that, but there is one.)
It’s a book that I couldn’t put down and I’m not an avid reader. I own it know and have read it several times.
Fascinating book to read, would recommend to anyone. Had it given to me by a friend who scooped it from the discount bin. Not the first gem to be discovered that way, but a great one nonetheless
One of my favourite books, extraordinary.. When I pick up this book and my mind rises to the challenges these men faced.. If I was anyone of them it would probably be the Frenchman moitissier.
The contrast of the two men who both had mystical experiences during the trip is very interesting. Both experienced spiritual death at sea but one was reborn in intensity of it and the other died.
It's actually incredible that an amateur was able to sail that far in that part of the ocean and not have perished months before.
The guy was obviously very adaptable, 99% of people wouldn't last 4 weeks.
in a clearly unworthy boat that he was unfamiliar with. Yep truly incredible
When a man stares into the abyss, it's his own character that stares back at him..
very well said
@Johhny Johnstone 👊
Lol the shit abyss
I saw some black dude. Go try it some time.
Is that true
Haunting story. Sir Johnston was a real gentleman though wasn't he?
He still is, he's lived a long happy life, viewed as a hero for his accomplishments... and he's always known what truly matters in life.
I’ve gotta learn more about this man, sounds like a good read
Hahaha way to make a comment that will attract 1000's of likes ::)
Spirit of a true sailor
Sir Robin, NOT Sir Knox--Johnston
Knox Johnston was a great man for doing what he did.
People back then had a better understanding of priorities and that which is really important in this life .
Between having a bit of spending money or giving it to help a windowed mother of 4 kids, Knox decided to help the widowed mother .
The story had a bitter sweet ending!
economy was different. I'm sure he also already had money to have a boat
@@pinkpugginz , the dollar was stronger back then . Had more purchasing power than it does today . Minimum wage was less that a dollar in the 70s .
Average wage before Minimum wage was imposed on employers , was even less than that .
Charity is charity, regardless of when
Honestly Barnard Moitessier’s story interests me far more 😂 The guy entered a race, had a yogi spiritual awakening, near completion decided to keep going, wrapped around the world again, then thought “thats good enough” stopped in Tahini left his wife, found a new woman had kids, and became a farmer. (9:54) 😂😂😂
And after that wild life of adventure, he died to Prostate cancer… Cancers a bitch
Sure is
Thanks for explaining, i didnt understand that part.
I was like - he did what??
Quite possibly the most french person ever
Crowhurst loitered around for months in some of the roughest seas in the World in a crap boat. Not to mention he worked out astronomical sights backwards to show what he would have seen had he been where he said he was in his false log, not an easy things to do. Ironically he turned out to be an brilliant sailor. Poor bugger.
Absolutely ! Had he lived he could’ve written a ‘tell all’ autobiography that every man and his dog would have wanted to read. The revenue from that alone would no doubt kept him and his family comfortable for years. It would not surprise me that he already knew that failure of any kind would end in possible suicide. It was a last gasp effort to save his family and company from bankruptcy. Unfortunately he underestimated the kindness and generosity of his fellow man. He would’ve been forgiven for trying to falsify his true locations - because it was the actions of a very desperate man - who must’ve felt completely trapped. How much he missed his family must of at times, felt overwhelming - not to mention the long list of huge problems he had to endure. It is a sad tale indeed. God bless him. Cheers 🍻
@@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter nice write up, he was a good friend of my late father
@@simonwyatt6453 - Wow ! That’s great to know - thank you 🙏 for the lovely compliment and extra information - I’m sure they had an interesting friendship too ? Cheers Simon. All the best 😎
Yes, deeply sad. He had little kids at home. It’s clear from his logs, though, that he wasn’t thinking coherently in the final days or weeks.
@@johnslater8998 absolutely John. The pure pressure of needing it to succeed sent him over the edge. Takes a very brave guy to take on the seas and elements like that - unfortunately not everyone makes it back . Cheers 🥂
Imagine leaving your wife and friends to circle the world almost twice.
@Egg T
by circling the world twice?
Idk seems interesting maybe see if someone made a video on it
@Egg T did you not watch the video? lol
Just to end up in Tahiti.
It's a better excuse than going for smokes
@@SangerZonvolt FARM MANGOES IN TAHITI
Despite the sheer odds this man faced I can't help but respect him for persevering so hard, a pure act of desperation rather than ego.
The man who donated was such a pure soul too.
What an amazing story. The ending was sad because in his own way he achieved quite a lot he just could not see it. The actual winner was in my view a true gentleman, today donate his winnings to the family and to get joy from gouging the newspaper for more was great.
As far as his business was concern, he was years ahead of his time. He came from a time of the sextant and chronometer. A modern yacht is loaded with electronic devices to aid navigation that can be used by any amateur sailer.
A troubled man who gave it his best. RIP
Not really, his 'navicator' was simply a radio direction device and was not a new concept. It was hand held, that is all. His navigation was by sextant and chronometer.
my guess is what really happened was he ran out of potable water, just didn't log it for whatever reason..
@@geraldlrstubbs I invent amazing shit all the time. Then I learn it already exists.
@@deandee8082 His boat was unseaworthy, that was the problem, and he was not up to the job.
No he was not. He built a pistol shaped RD device. Everyone used RD in those days, but a normal device was shaped like a radio set. He did not iinvent anything, just modified an existing bit of kit that was in common usage. It was not particularly good, which is why his company was in trouble.
Knox Johnson thoroughly deserving of his Knighthood unlike many who buy their way into the Queens honours list these days. A magnificent seaman and an even greater human being men like this are so rare God Bless him.
Yep most of the peole knighted now don't
Deserve it in the slightest
A real gentleman
I would say the women who are elevated to titles of grand dames are definitely deserving . the men in the past who were knighted had definitely moved mankind ahead quite a bit . but the men who now become knights , I have to say ,I dont know about .
Hear here, and amen sir.
Absolutely. Such selfless graciousness in victory has been rarely if ever equalled. Crowhurst himself was a good and courageous man who tried his very best putting it all on the line, but, like Icarus, soared too high and came a cropper.
Brilliant story, he had an ego death, his account of realizing life is all just a game is a very common theme. Mostly because it's an unavoidable truth.
The man who finished and then donated is absolutely deserving of every good thing that happens to him! Actual hero
Is it just me, or does anyone else find maritime story narration with an Irish accent somehow just perfect?
It's Just you
ur right
Is it just me, or is it annoying to have to look at millenials' unshaven sweaty faces?
@@Page-Hendryx is it just me, or are you stereotyping all millennials based on one bad experience you had and are now letting that out in a completely unrelated comment on an unrelated video
I agree with you! 🥰
That countdown to his death written by himself was truly unsettling. While i can't imagine the madness he endured i sympathise with his struggle.
🙏
If that was actually his voice, the guy could easily have a living as a narrator.
Made
says to me it was for sure a guilt riden suicide meaning he felt he had to face punishment for his sins hopelessness suicide is usually an act of passion where the person just in the spur of the moment offs themself. its sad to think he felt he deserved death for cheating at a race
@@hardwirecars That narrative went way deeper than cheating in a race. It went to the core of his soul. I don't know what you were listening to.
Such a sad story. I feel really sorry for his family--learning the truth after so much time must have been a terrible shock. The man who won was definitely a good guy.
One thing people tend to forget, is that humans are social animals, and extended time alone can make most people lose their minds. I sure couldn't deal with it--when my wife was in the hospital for weeks, it was the first time I ever spent living alone. It sucked. I couldn't imagine going for months without being around other people.
So sad, the whole weight of our lives can come crashing down on us all at once. For him, it happened when he was all alone, hundreds of miles from any other soul. I hope he can rest in peace.
Are we just ignoring the guy who just decided when he was nearly done with the race that he was going to go again then decided to live in Tahiti
And leave his wife with four children to raise. What a guy.
@@cherylyates9845 not sure if you’re talking about Crowhurst and his family or the man who stayed in Tahiti but they are two separate people. As far as I know the man who stayed in Tahiti only had a wife.
@@loganwalters5613 I think you're right. I remember that part being confusing, like wait did he stay in Tahiti or do the race nearly twice?
Sir Knox-Johnston is amazing for giving up the winnings to crowhursts family. I have faith that every human would do that given the opportunity. One of the rare uplifting facts in the last moments series. Great video!
It really choked me up!
its sad to know you are wrong and that far from every human would do such a thing
@@higamerXD nihilistic pessimism cringe moment
@@higamerXD I wouldn’t
@@mort4810 same
Bernard Moitessier was the true winner of that race and the true winner at life. He would have won the actual race easily, but he decided to keep going and crossed the world another one and a half times before stopping. He didn't have a radio and would slingshot messages to passing ships and sit zen on the foredeck in gales. Legend.
Thanks for this comment as I read slingshots are left at his grave and I didn't know why
Seeing this video after watching the film with Colin Firth I like the film even more. It was so accurate and Colin Firth is just perfect as Crowhurst
Being confronted by the vastness and emptiness of the ocean is the reason why the concept of uncaring, unfeeling cosmic horror exists. After all, as HP Lovecraft once said, "We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far."
The ocean is terrifying even in a purely scientific sense.
Water itself is deadly, either from the violence and power of waves or grinding, inevitable wear of erosion, it can't ever really be stopped.
And that goes without mentioning the things that _live_ in it. Sharks? Nine metre-long dolphins that kill sharks and are partially connected to the extinction of the biggest shark? Giant squid? Gigantic whales who _eat_ giant squid, and whose _heads_ are sonic cannons that could liquify you? It's all down there. And that's without covering the abyssal zones, also known as _Underwater Vore Hell._
And it's just... really fuccin' big. We don't fully know what's down there. We can guess. There won't be any hidden macroraptorial creatures hiding in the depths because those leave a _mark_ on the environment. There's not enough dead whales or lost teeth washing up, but things don't have to be hyper-predators to be dangerous. Sperm whales and their body-pulping sonar can't swallow anything big and solid, but they're still dangerous. In fact, predators are typically less aggressive, because any injury sustained in a fight could stop them hunting and cause starvation, whereas plants don't tend to run, so herbivores can just attack whatever the hell they like and be fine.
The ocean's fucking scary.
The ocean is our local space. We think we know a lot about both, but we barely know anything, and who knows what things we can find within when, or even if, we uncover all of it?
That's how I feel living in my city today.
fun fact: HP lovecraft also said black people bad
@@abloodcorpse3318 Tbf, the dude was afraid of people from the next town over, of course he'd be terrified of people from the other side of the world.
I have had those thoughts before about 8 years ago
The whole "I don't want to play this game anymore, I will restart"
I'm so glad I had support, there is so many wonderful things in this world no matter how difficult life gets,
As for the guy who donated the money, good man
Same here but mine was addiction to alcohol, I really thought I could never quit. After years of drinking and praying to stop I quit suddenly out of nowhere. All I know is that I'm forever grateful.
True the good things in life are as intense as the horrible parts of life so that fact balances out the effort to keep trying
Have yet to experience those "wonderful" things
@@bswihart1 that’s is a literal miracle
me too, I even had a date set for it, it hasn't come upon yet but I don't really feel like it anymore. When life becomes shit, every improvement feels like a relief, if you're at this point in life, have faith, but be proactive, be the change my friend.
Crowhurst’s story is heartbreaking. For the sake of him and his family, I am so sorry that there were no other employment opportunities which might have satisfied his financial, intellectual, and emotional needs. Debt is a bitch, it drives people into desperation.
“You couldn’t really see them thrown out of the house.” Bless you, kind sir.
I see mostly stubbornness. Most people don't have jobs that satisfy their emotional needs. But you get on with life, you care for your family, and in the meantime you look for better opportunities. That's life. His behaviour and mindset seem quite childish, arrogant and extremely self serving, everything somehow being about his "honour". And there you go, it left a wife widowed, four kids orphaned and a real winner felt the need to give up a 5000 pound prize pot to care for Crowhurst's family, doing what Crowhurst could easily have done himself by just GETTING A JOB like any responsible person with a family to take care of would.
I have to say, the most impressive thing about your superb videos, is the humanity you afford to your subjects. It would be easy to mock Donald, and many did, so bravo Sir, in explaining his dilemmas and respecting his, it should be said, his courage, reckless though it undoubtedly was. 👍
I was an 11 year old boy when I followed him out of Teignmouth on a yellow boat shown in the video . There was animosity towards him in the town as many locals had spent time / money helping him on his way. At the time many thought he had started a new life elsewhere. I don’t think that’s the case. I think the poor man took his own life rather than live a lie.
That's really cool!
👍
Damn...
the yellow boat is a pleasure boat called the Britannia. she was sold a few years back. after the film the town went mad about him before that no one really cared about the story. quite a few years ago some guy made a new Teignmouth electron boat big fiberglass thing on the sea front of Teignmouth. had loads of sponsors. you could pay a pound and write you name on it .but something happened can't remember what but there was controversy about that. oh Teignmouth born and breed
@@MrWozzy28 My mother tells me that I’m the small boy standing at the stern in front of my father wearing a sort of orange waterproof sailing top. We moved to Teignmouth in 1965, I’ve lived in Cornwall most of my life now. The Pilot of Britannia on this occasion was a man called Bill Harvey. He died recently well into his 90’s
The victor of this race is truly in the list of wholesomest people ever. Having sailed myself, not around the world. Just the basics. It really shows how pure and humble the sea can make you.
And also how mad and maniac you can become. Or how introspective you become.
Crowhurst had cheated but even he felt guilty about it, even after being pushed by his desperation. Some don't even feel the guilt. Makes me question whether i might do the same, if i was in his place.
The ocean, especially when alone, puts everything into perspective, we are very small, and the ocean vast, unpredictable and far greater than a man....and earth is just a boat in the ocean that is the universe..nothing is certain, nothing is permanent.
@@virginiaviola5097 everything's efemeral
@@RANDOMSHITRANDOM *ephemeral*....but I get what you mean!
How wonderful of the winner to donate some winnings to Crowhurst family. 💖
"He left his wife and started a new life in Tahiti." Best plan I've heard in a long time.
Doesn’t seem like a bad idea maybe become a mango farmer
He just needed more money arthur
@@SH-qq3fb i know the wives won't care.
That fellow who made the donation to the family is one classy dude, a man to aspire to be like.
Wow the guy who won was a great guy... wins 5,000 pounds and immediately donates it to the family of a person he's never met. what a man
@@Aron-ru5zk Gave the money to a widow and her 4 children? Yeah. Them.
And he said that he made the Times match his donation!
Imagine what a real pos he actually is if he knows he doesn't need or deserve the money. We need equality not hand outs from the elite.
@@r.m.5548 what
@@r.m.5548 The only time we will EVER be equal is in the grave.
It’s incredible watching this channel evolve
over the last couple years. Keep up the good work. Thank you.
This is an absolutely beautiful and tragic telling of this man's adventure and existential despair.
I want to know more about the dude who had a serious case of the “fuck it’s”, left his wife and sailed around the world again to Tahiti 😂
His name is Bernard Moitessier. He's a famous French sailor and philosopher. He's written some fairly interesting books about his experiences at sea
Better excuse than going out for milk or smokes 😂
Obviously hooked up with a Tahitian glamour and thought fuck it, I’m bunking down with her 😂😂
Read his books "The Longest Voyage" e.g.. My comment on that: now he is seen as a great guy but I think forsaking family under the excuse of ocean racing is far more cowardly than how Crowhurst was acting. Crowhurst died because he did not want to let everybody down. Moitessier simply run away and hid on the tropics. Crowhurst was trying to be a criminal but he couldn't, his morale did not let him to. Moitessier did not have such a scupulus, he picked a nice place and fuck everyone. Did not have the guts to tell her he wanted a divorce, settle things and then go wherever he wanted. What an idol huh.
The French Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin did pretty much the same, in the 1800's, left his family in France, and frolicked in Tahiti with any number of teenage Tahitian girls. All of his artist buddies back in Paris were like: "We are confused, Paul, why do you choose to live in Tahiti when life in France has so much to offer?" Lol. Gauguin was my hero in art school.
So he won without knowing it, his family got the money, the money to save his family's house
Yeah but he should have figured out another way to do it . There are other houses out there!!
No insurance?
Actually, he lost but his family won due to the kindness and generosity of another person's heart.
@@joletty1793 really? When you die we will say your family hit the jackpot?
@@youcanbesmartaskhow3857 He did make bad decisions that would have financially ruined the family, he knew it, which is why he sadly took his life. They, the family did not win due to him, they benefited or won out in this case because someone else showed compassion for their case, predicament.
What a noble gesture to donate the money to the family. That is beautiful.
What an incredibly intriguing story. And wow! The world could certainly use more people like Sir Knox Johnston. Choosing to donate his entire prize purse to Crowhurst's family so they wouldn't lose their home, even after finding out that Donald was attempting to cheat his way to victory before succumbing to his own paranoid insanity is one of the most touchingly charitable acts imaginable. What an immensely respectable gentleman.
Sir Knox Johnston was a gentleman of the highest calibre, and though witty, he was deeply humble with it. What a good man.
What do you mean was? He's still alive you know.
@@adamcoleman4578 well, there you go. Still alive. Added bonus.
And still as enthusiastic about sailing as ever!
“This boat is going to Tahiti!”
Is that a Rdr2 reference?
HAVE SOME GODDAMN FAITH!
Mangos
@@rodrikforrester6989 are you or your brother going to kill the bastard?
Damnit arthur
Sir Knox-Johnston is a class act. Good show!
As far as losing one's mind on such long journeys, I honestly have my doubts. I recently watched an interview with a man who served in MACV SOG during the Vietnam War. Such men routinely faced the most extreme types of combat ever experienced by any soldiers in any war. He was asked if he or his fellow soldiers ever experienced PTSD or "went crazy." His reply was "only those who were already crazy when they got there." I suspect much the same is true of those who descend into insanity during extreme expeditions...they were already descending into insanity before the expedition ever started.
Agreed.
wow he died younger than me, I'm 40 now, I once crossed the the US on a bicycle that I had and maintained throughout the whole trip, I carried as many spared bike parts and tools just in case plus plenty of supplies for at least 3 days just in case I got stranded in the middle of nowhere like I did many times due to flat tires, problems with the wheels and bicycle in general, plus needed time to rest, I took off from Sarasota Florida heading towards Keywest passing through Miami, on my return from the keys I got back to the west coast leaving Sarasota again but this time heading towards the California coast, I fallowed interstate I10 for the most part, finally made it to San Diego after 7+months and some weeks later to Santa Monica LA, I know what that man went through, failure is not and option while doing this things but his whole story is sad because unlike me he had no contact with any other human beings for months along by himself at sea, on the otherhand me been on the ground I had plenty to do and people to meet along my trip that as well became a journey of a lifetime, this man was brave but it's deeply sad that he didn't make it back to his family, aldo I wasn't living a wife or kids of my own behind, my mom was worry and the rest of my relatives who new what I was doing, I deed kept communication with as many of them as I could plus people I met along the way, cellphones are truly a miracle.
You should write a book & record what must have been a harrowing feat on a bike .
So true .the invention of cell phones & computers changed life so much & forever . life never went backwards after those events
What do you mean you know what the man went through ????
Wanna bike across the USA some day
@@cathecavanaugh615 @Cathe Cavanaugh I welcome the idea very much but I just haven't had enough free time to do so since I stopped riding, getting back to normal life in a busy hectic city in south California is drowning and overwhelming, my destination should had been Florida which offers a more relaxing warming lifestyle but I left Florida because I wanted to see what else was out there, got lost many times, when my phone wasn't hooked up to WIFI to keep my phone's GPS working which works with Google maps, later I got to know of a map app that was able to run offline, that really changed everything for me 😊😊😊, no more getting lost because of lack of WiFi.
dam hes been killing it with the uploads lately
True dat
get it, cuz the captain died
Sublime!
I really liked how you told this story. I've read and seen a lot about this but nothing as succinct as this. Excellent job. I felt like I was in his head!!
"He left his life and moved to Tahiti"
Dutch Van Der Linde: Write that down! Write that down!
"I have a plan Arthur"
Yeah of course you have dutch
FAITH
WE JUST NEED MONEY
I just need more TIME
@@brendonutjita MUNNEH
That guy who left his wife and started a new life in Tahiti might be an interesting story too.
That's just Dutch Van Der Linde lmfao
@@badfitz66 stole the words from my mouth
Coulson?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Moitessier
@@rayy__7630 It's a magical place.
A very well put together video .Very moving account that brought me close to tears at one point
Thank You for bringing a sense of Honor to this Mans somewhat tragic legacy... The need for a Man to provide the best life possible for his Family is like a Mothers need & desire to Love Her children.. Its in our DNA... I too hope this Man found Peace at the end of His Game...
The voice of the man who reads the notes is so hypnotizing and calming
Look up crime YT channel that's called That Chapter.
@@soylentlyso3219 Great Shakespearian actor --> ruclips.net/video/Vi9W41EBnU8/видео.html
He was also the voice of many commercials in the 70`s
@@brendareed8412
That's "let's have a goo" Mike reading that?!?
😮🤔😮
@@brendareed8412 that chapter sucks. his voice is annoying and he makes too many jokes about the victims
The dislikes are just Crowhurst’s investors.
Its his one investor who made several different accounts or maybe he invested in a dislike bot? 🤔
Steven Pinneo . Or people who are annoyed that the guy telling the story can’t keep the hair out of his face.
@@timjones9206 "here we see the true nature of a disliker...
See how it boots the dislike button with its tiny little foot and lets out battlescream.
*squek noises*
Dislikes are afraid of mundane stuff like hairstyle or room color, they truly are special of the bunch
*squek* *squek*
tuxutku . That’s the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard. By the way... I liked the video.
Yeah buddy, I lost 1000s of pounds off this investment I am mad
Awesome video thank you. I have always had a fascination with those that participate in the round the world sailing competitions.
Your content is AWESOME!!! Like nothing I have seen anywhere! Love itt!!
I met Robin K-J when we were both in our 20's and he impressed me then. He is a real gentleman.
Honestly if I was that guy I probably would’ve just started a new life in Brazil and let everyone think I’d died at sea.
How do you know that actually didn’t happen? No body was ever found. Of course there is a shit ton of ocean and this fella could be anywhere in it. We just don’t know, just like Morris and the Anglin brothers.....
The guilt and isolation probably got to him
He couldn't live like that.. the deception. Some people can live a lie, but they pay, somehow. Can't hide from yourself. And he took the *gentlemans* way out of the situation. He really could not face his limitations.
@Yuck Foutube would've been one hell of a story to tell them once they got older, though he can always just say he's not proud of it
@Yuck Foutube agreed, in a way it is still cowardice, one should take the consequences of decisions, go back, look in their eyes and take the fact that you failed. Stay with them when they get in such trouble. I fully feel with him but they would still have one more person to try and help them.
The reading of the diary entries was... chilling.
1:28 let's just take a minute to acknowledge the classy names of all of these boats people just had style back in the day
They made a movie about this in 2017 called "The Mercy" starring Colin Firth as Donald Crowhurst.
Thanks will look for it right now.
No I seen the movie that was made of this story. Waterworld duh.
Lmfao yeah dennis hopper lost an eye filming waterworld...
I live in Teignmouth and the entire town was shut down to film it
Knox-johnston is a true Gentleman. God bless him.
My Grandfather was an amateur sailor. He went around my home city on his yacht on weekends just for fun. I asked him why he never sailed far out into the ocean and he said that it was so unpredictable that you should only do it id yoy 100% know what your doing. So for Crowhurst to cross the Atlantic despite having only ever sailed on lakes is a damn miracle.
The winner was certainly an honorable guy, donating the money to help the family. Truly a good guy.
Dude should have just chilled in Argentina for a month and then sailed back. Free vacation, and you're the fastest.
He could still be chilling in argentina for all we know
@@att7364 reminds me of a certain german man I know....
@@att7364 a fate worse than death
@@donnachaoconnor9425 Austrian to be precise.
@typo pit the capes are really tough to round though, and this guy wasn’t exactly a seasoned sailor in a fit boat
Could have lied, come clean later and then just wrote a book about his big scam
Honor wasn't just a word back then.
He was Like the Napoleon Bonaparte or Napalm bonerpart or whatever of sailing. Constant lying.
@@icemaqe99 ah yeah, very honorable to a attempt to cheat by cutting the trip short, going radio silent for months, taking a stop he was not supposed to take, and fabricating a false report of this whole experience that he intended to present to the world.
He was doing what he had to do to keep his family from homelessness, but what he attempted was hardly honorable. It does indeed look like it was just a word to him.
Thats all well and good when your not in completely manic state from months of isolation at sea
@@icemaqe99
Honor is a constant in the mind of humanity. It doesn't fluctuate with generations, it just changes forms.
Isolation is truly a hellish scenario and being with others is great. I wish you all the best
My hat off to Sir Knox-Johnston. A title truly deserved, a pioneering adventurer and a true gentleman.
As tragic as this story is
This would make a good horror movie
There is a movie... Its called "The Mercy"
A movie was made called Cabin Boy with Chris Elliot, it was similar.
and Dead Calm
I was thinking that he was leaving behind his wife and four children with no more income from him, as well as the total loss of his business and their home. I was relieved that the heroic winner gave the money to the widow.
Excellent video. That poor man.
The winner is an absolute legend. To donate his winnings to the family of his opponent, is the type of man i strive to be and the type of society i want the world to live up to.
It can be such a lonely feeling out at sea,the ocean is so huge and makes us seem so small and insignificant to its power.
That british dude's narrating felt mega calming, like a caring dad reading you a bed time story
Qxir himself? Hes Irish.
@@lilcrippie5927 I think he meant the last few seconds
@@lilcrippie5927 ya it was the narrator in the end
@@Danger-Tater the British usually prefer it in the end.
@@alfredpeasant5980 idiot
This is as much a story about the goodness of man as it is about the hard luck life of Crowhurst. Knox Johnston giving up his prize cash to the guys family is a testament to that man's decency
I salute you for writing a very good narrative to an interesting story. Classically done and executed.
Just biding my time waiting for madness at sea to become fashionable again.
I read a book about him years ago. Fascinating story. The author mentioned how much Crowhurst had aged over the course of the voyage, evident in the photos.
This man’s voyage was still an accomplishment even if he didn’t end up breaking the record and getting there through illegitimate means.
Thank you for this story. I remember seeing this on the news. I currently have a friend attempting to sail around the world in his 30 ft sailboat and hope he's ok.
Qxir is trying to give me nightmares like cave diving tragedy
These vids make me not want to sleep because of that lol
Junior Mudd...the underwater cave diving episode were we saw the dead man's goggles, hell anyone involving caves now that I think about it