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Should you watch Deep Water?

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Deep Water

Documentary · 2006

DEEP WATER is the stunning true story of the fateful voyage of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur yachtsman who enters the most daring nautical challenge ever – the very first solo, non-stop, round-the-world boat race.

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The sides of Deep Water

  • An amateur sailor in the first solo round-the-world race
  • Positions faked from the middle of the ocean
  • His own logbooks and recordings

Deep Water is good for you if…

  • you like a true story stranger than anything a writer would dare.
  • you want months alone on the open sea, filmed by the sailors themselves.
  • you like watching Donald Crowhurst's mind come apart under pressure.

Deep Water is bad for you if…

  • you need some hope from a story about a man alone at sea with a lie he can't take back.
  • you can't watch a man lose himself while his family waits at home.

About: ambition · solitude · lies

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