Alec Mecklenburger
Dr. Bonnie Lenore Kyburz
Technical Writing
12 September 2018
Reflection
of Deep Water
Deep water is a Documentary that follows the tragic
events of the Golden Globe. This was a round the world sailing race where the
sailors were alone and were not allowed to land their boats. At the start of
the race there were nine competitors. These competitors gathered from all
around the world for the 5,000-pound cash prize. Deep water focuses strongly on
Donald Crowhurst’s tragic journey. Crowhurst was an engineer with little
sailing experience. He gathered the funds for a boat on a deal that he would finish
the race. In the event he didn’t finish he would go into financial ruin. I
strongly connected to Crowhurst as I am studying engineering and I race
sailboats in my free time. During the race Crowhurst’s boat had many issues
which’d caused him to be much slower than the other boats. The combination of
the slow boat and stress of the deal he made caused him to cheat the race. Crowhurst’s
plan was to wait near the finish and jump in near the end and win. As the race
continued many contests dropped out of the race for various reasons. In the end
it was between the three sailors Crowhurst, Johnston and Tetley. The first one
to finish was Johnston winning the Golden Globe. As the end closed in Tetley’s
boat sank leaving Crowhurst alone to finish in second. The stress of finishing
the race and being caught faking the journey drove Crowhurst mad. He ended up
rambling about cosmic beings in his journal and the sins of man. Later they
found his boat abandoned in the ocean. It is assumed Crowhurst died. The film
ends with shots of his decaying boat on the shore of a Caribbean island. All in
all, the root cause of Crowhurst’s tragic journey is the result from media pressures
and the boat’s owner. If he didn’t finish the race both parties would demand
large sums of money destroying him and his family. Worried about being
discovered as a fraud and having his life ruined he went crazy and disappeared.
Work Cited;
Osmond, Louise, and Jerry
Rothwell. “Deep Water (DOCUMENTARY).” YouTube,
YouTube, 19 Nov. 2017, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9NS6Uq9-zk&list=WL&index=48&t=1505s
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