The most amazing thing about this spectacular and exciting story is how an earth a father with three minor children on board could be so irresponsible as to sail out into the open sea at night in a sailing-boat and rely on the automatic steering gear when there is a storm. Of course something must go wrong. Here everything goes wrong. The shipwreck is just the beginning. For almost a month these helpless people must freeze and starve, eating clams and seaweed, being unable to walk because of frozen feet, being obliged to perform amputation on an own leg to avoid gangrene, and so on. There is no end to the immeasurable troubles of this poor very ordinary family, one more helpless than the others, (the little girl losing her glasses in the shipwreck and getting almost blind), and hammered to pieces by bad weather with snowstorms as well. It could impossible get worse, and yet it does get worse all the time. The father even succeeds in shortcutting the radio when at last they get the chance of some communication.
But it is well made, sticking closely to reality, making it all quite convincing. It must have been like this it all actually happened. Take warning like from an instruction book: this is not the way to navigate in Alaska.
But it is well made, sticking closely to reality, making it all quite convincing. It must have been like this it all actually happened. Take warning like from an instruction book: this is not the way to navigate in Alaska.