Deep Water

Feature Documentary • 2006 • 92’ • UK

In 1968 nine men competed to be the first person to sail alone and non-stop around the world. As the single handers wrestled their boats through the mountainous seas of the Southern Ocean, Donald Crowhurst, an electronics engineer and weekend sailor became an unlikely hero when it appeared that his revolutionary boat was going to carry him home in record-breaking speed. Two weeks later his abandoned boat is found floating in the middle of the Atlantic.

Directors:
Jerry Rothwell, Louise Osmond

Producers:
Al Morrow, John Smithson, Jonny Persey

Co-Producer:
Stewart Le Maréchal

Partners:
Pathé, UKFC, Film4