Deep Water (2006): A Difficult Decision

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And confirmation of just how dangerous those seas could be
came later that November.
Knox-Johnston: I'd heard about Ridgway and Blyth.
Next news I got was off New Zealand.
And I learned about King and Fougeron.
Kerr: Bill King got turned over by a big wave
off South Africa and lost his mast.
There was the Italian.
The stress made him so ill,
he had a stomach ulcer.
There was another French sailor.
He had 27 days of the most appalling weather,
and he packed it in.
Hynds: It came down to the last four:
Tetley, Knox-Johnston, Moitessier
and Don Crowhurst. Only four.
Swinton: The odds were shortening on Crowhurst
all the time.
But his progress was painfully slow.
His only communication with land
was through occasional telephone calls
patched by radio operators
and through Morse code cables,
and the cables catalogued the problems.
Crowhurst was averaging barely 60 miles a day,
half of the speed of Moitessier,
in a boat that would not stay afloat in heavy seas.
Winspear: The pressure was building.
If Don went forward,
he was committing suicide.
But the financial situation was desperate.
If he came back, he was ruined.
Donald: "Time and money:
If one considers time only,
the thing to do is turn back now;
but money...
this area is the most worrying.
If I stop, I will disappoint a lot of people...
Stanley Best... most important...
Rodney Hallworth, the folks at Teignmouth.
In the final analysis,
if the whole thing goes quite sour,

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