Shipwrecked By Hurricane Sandy: The Strange Tale Of The Sinking Of The Bounty
The sinking of the Bounty The AtavistA captain and a sailor died after the Bounty, a wooden ship built for a Marlon Brando film in the 1960s, sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy. Journalist and Popular Science contributor Matthew Shaer reconstructs the ship's final voyage. The following excerpt is from The Sinking of the Bounty: The True Story of a Tragic Shipwreck and its Aftermath by Matthew Shaer. The Sinking of the Bounty was released this month by The Atavist, a Brooklyn-based digital publisher. Multimedia versions of the e-book--along with Kindle, Kobo, and Nook editions--are available at The Atavist.--Eds At two on Monday morning, the exhausted crew of the tall ship Bounty donned their bright-orange survival suits and lashed together a makeshift raft of emergency supplies. For hours, water had poured into the boat much faster than it could be pumped out, and in...