So, did the whole crew suddenly find it a good time to take a swim, just to realize there was nobody left at the helm? And then see the vessel, caught by a sudden breeze, disappear in the far?
Not that I know of.
No.
So we can rule out Open Water 2: Adrift, then.
But did they all willingly abandon ship, whether for good reasons or bad? Or were they swept overboard by some external power?
I don’t know that the movie is based on my incident, but that has so much of it, it has to count. No sharks eating them, though.
The guys who sailed the ship went for a swim, but did not lower the swim ladder. No other way back on was available. Yacht too smooth to climb up and no way to find hand-holds and get on. They drowned.
This was also close, apart from the breeze bit. The answer should have been “Almost” rather than No.
Gee, that’s a truly horrible way to earn a Darwin Award! So close to salvation, and yet so far…
(Could it explain the Mary Celeste case? But I guess not; sailors back then weren’t much for leisurely swimming!)
Yes, I can not imagine the frustration realizing that you can not get back on. The scrambling/scratching on the side of the ship. Knowing your own stupidity caused this. Perhaps…watching one by one as buddies drown.
:shudders:
Germany had to outlaw something “American” due to deaths. Very strange situation. What did they outlaw and what was so strange?
Anything to do with:
Guns?
Entertainment?
- Movies?
Food? - Apple pie?
Vehicles?
Is it a:
Cultural practice?
Physical object/something with physical form?
Was it Germans doing the thing that was outlawed?
Or Americans, such as military stationed in Germany?
Were the deaths human?
Did the “American” thing actually come from any part of North or South America?
yes
no.
We’re the deaths mostly young people?
Did the deaths involve doing something most reasonable people would consider stupid to do?
KK
Young as in
Toddlers?
Schoolchildren?
Teens?
Twenty-somethings?
KK
Did it involve sex?
No.
Is Germany important for any other reason? Could this have happened in, say, France?
Is Germany the only place where deaths for the reason outlawed have happened?