DEEP WATER

By Louise OSMOND, Jerry ROTHWELL

MET FILM - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2006

A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.

    • Year of production
    • 2006
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Director(s)
    • Louise OSMOND, Jerry ROTHWELL
    • EIDR
    • 10.5240/084E-DBE6-666E-9A2E-206D-K
    • Producer(s)
    • Al MORROW, John SMITHSON, Jonny PERSEY
    • Synopsis
    • In 1968 nine men competed to be the first person to sail alone and non-stop around the world. As the single handers wrestled their boats through the mountainous seas of the Southern Ocean, Donald Crowhurst, an electronics engineer and week-end sailor became a unlikely hero when it appeared that his revolutionary boat was going to carry him home in record-breaking speed. Two weeks later his abandoned boat is found floating in the middle of the Atlantic.