The last voyage of the albatross by charles gieg
White squall cast then and now.
The first two-thirds of White Squall, the new adventure movie starring Jeff Bridges, is a coming-of-age tale about a group of teen-agers on a long voyage in the Caribbean and South Pacific.
Based on a true story, the youths were to spend a school year studying and working aboard a two-masted vessel, the Albatross.
Charles gieg albatross
The idyllic experience turns tragic when the brigantine sinks in a freak storm.
Richard Langford of DeLand, a survivor of the May 1961 disaster that White Squall is based on, doesn’t plan to see the movie.
“I lost a lot of good friends on that trip.
I don’t need any reminders,” said Langford, 70, a retired Stetson University English professor. “I had a number of dreams about it after it happened, and I don’t want to instigate that again. It was a traumatic experience for a number of people.”
Two of the five adults on board, as well as four of the 15 students, died.
The dead included Alice Sheldon, a physician, biology teacher a