HMS Bounty Sinking off NC Coast

[SuperiorDG]

Why the hell would they be out there in a sailing ship?

Updated at 10:45 a.m. ET: A search was under way Monday for two crew members of the stricken ship HMS Bounty, which sank off the coast of North Carolina, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Earlier Monday, two Coast Guard helicopters rescued 14 people from life rafts after they were forced to abandon ship.
They were flown to Air Station Elizabeth City in North Carolina where they were met by awaiting emergency medical services personnel, the Coast Guard said.
An aircraft was on the scene, searching for the two missing crew members, with a Jayhawk helicopter en route to assist.
"It appears that two crew members didn't make it onto the life rafts," Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Michael Patterson told NBC News. The Coast Guard was speaking with the rescued crew members to find out more details.


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[dwalker460]

That will suck if they cant raise it, a real piece of history there.

EDIT- because it was in the movie guys! Back before everything was CG

[BPTactical]

More than likely set sail to try and get around it. Open water is the best place for a ship in a hurricane.
Sad to lose it, neat piece of maritime history.

[HoneyBadger]

As Bert said, a ship sitting in the harbor is going to get smashed to bits in a hurricane. It is almost always safer to get the ship out on open water where the waves are much longer and there is nothing to smash against. Very unfortunate to lose this beautiful ship.

[SuperiorDG]

These guys are nuts. I bet those guys in the water very thankful.\

[sniper7]

pretty cool video of the rescue

very sad to see that ship go down, hopefully they can recover it and get it going again.

[cstone]

Brando should have bought the ship and kept it in Tahiti

Sorry to see her go. Square riggers are beautiful when they run before the wind. Damn, I miss sailing

[TS12000]

The BBC on my phone said they found one of the two remaining guys

[hatidua]

Sunk off the Outer Banks, it won't be lonely on the bottom (a spot with hundreds of ships down there).

[SuperiorDG]

Sunk off the Outer Banks, it won't be lonely on the bottom (a spot with hundreds of ships down there).

"More than 1,000 ships have sunk in these waters since records began in 1526" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_of_the_Atlantic

Yea I dove on a few and flew a small plane along the coast and there are everywhere.