Sank.
The Bounty.
It might have been just a replica built for a Hollywood movie but it was history. History that I walked upon and touched. History that introduced my girls to Marlon Brando. History that now lies at the bottom of the ocean.
Sure it isn't as tragic as the loss of the Titanic or the Lusitania. It isn't as pressing as the flooding in New York - my home state - or the tens of thousands without power. But I'm sad about it nonetheless. Maybe because there aren't many tall ships left in this world of gas and metal. Maybe because The Bounty represented a time and age that I long to be a part of.
Here's a blurb from CNN that shows rescue footage of three of the crew members and another from the Washington Post.
I wrote about the Bounty a few months ago when it docked in St. Augustine and the we took a tour walking the deck where Marlon Brando and Johny Depp walked - not that I'm a big fan of Depp but yeah it was used in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies too.
Yeah, I saw this story and it is sad to lose a piece of living history. Now the only way people are going to be able to appreciate the the Bounty is if James Cameron dives down there with his weirdo submarine.
ReplyDeleteHe probably would and then he'd write a touching love story to tie into the sinking and somehow he'd include blue people...maybe merpeople would work.
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