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Caviezel's character, Jim McCormick, was a real-life veteran racer and boat owner who drove Miss Madison in 1966 and 1969–71, then raced his own boat until seriously injured some years later. Many of his actual seven-man pit crew, including Harry Volpi, Bobby Humphrey, and Tony Steinhardt, were also portrayed in the film, while Steinhardt ...
On March 25, 2009, a report was released based on a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission investigation into the capsizing: it included interviews with Schuyler and an inspection of the boat. The report concluded the following: [4] the anchor line was tied to the port-side transom as part of a (mistaken) plan to free the anchor.
Raised in Lynchburg, Tennessee, Dance considered becoming a doctor, but changed his mind after happening upon a grisly motorcycle accident in the early 1960s. He then turned his focus to competing in bass tournaments. A fishing lure manufacturer that sponsored him suggested he should start a TV show to promote the product.
A fishing charter boat captain who rescued two parachuting Navy pilots after witnessing their unmanned fighter jet plummet into San Diego Bay described what he saw as something from a movie.. The ...
A rescue boat is at the scene of the boat wreck in Biscayne Bay off North Key Largo on Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. The 29-foot Robalo hit a channel marker and hurled everyone aboard into the water.
Two men were arrested Thursday and charged with causing the deaths of two people after the boat they were operating capsized in New York City’s Hudson River in July 2022, federal prosecutors said.
Due to the boat damage and the local wind conditions, she determined that her original route to San Diego was no longer viable and decided instead to make the 1,500-mile (2,400 km) journey to Hawaii. Without a radio navigation system, Ashcraft was forced to navigate the yacht manually with the help of a sextant and a watch.
Accident-prone son Snook is forever making mistakes much to the chagrin of his father Pascoe. But when tragedy strikes the fishing boat during a deep sea fishing trek in the Southern Ocean, the boy is called on to become a man in a rites of sea passage to reconcile his past mishaps and save both his father and the ship from certain disaster.