Shes a quiet storm
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Petersen asked Harrison Ford to play the role but declined, his second choice was Nicolas Cage who also turned it down, and Mel Gibson was offered the role but wanted too much money. Billy is a divorced father of two daughters, who is determined to undertake one last fishing trip before the end of the season to make up for a recent string of poor catches. George Clooney as Frank William "Billy" Tyne, Jr., captain of Andrea Gail, a swordfishing boat.Later, as she heads out to sea again, she remembers Billy soliloquizing about what it means to be a ship captain. There are no survivors Linda reads the eulogy at the memorial. Bobby silently says goodbye to his girlfriend and loved ones as the rapidly rising swell carries him away. He surfaces and watches as Andrea Gail rights herself before sinking stern-first into the depths of the Atlantic. Billy elects to go down with his ship, the rest of the crew are trapped inside the living quarters, and only one, Bobby, manages to get out.
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They attempt to drive the boat over the wave, but it crests before it can get to the top and is overturned. However, the vessel encounters an enormous rogue wave. Billy makes a successful attempt to turn the boat around. The ship struggles to sail through pounding waves and shrieking winds, while friends and family worry and wait for news. The Andrea Gail endures various problems including 40 foot waves crashing onto the deck, a broken stabilizer ramming the side of the ship with a loose anchor, and two crew members briefly getting thrown overboard. All but one of the Air National Guard crew members are rescued by a Coast Guard vessel, the USCGC Tamaroa. A New York Air National Guard HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter responds, but after failing to perform a midair refueling with an HC-130 Hercules, the helicopter crew aborts the mission and ditch their aircraft. Shortly after, Captain Linda Greenlaw of sister ship Hannah Boden calls in a Mayday for the Andrea Gail. Rookie fisherman Bobby Shatford attempts to fix it but can only watch helplessly as the antenna breaks off and disappears into the sky. However, between Andrea Gail and Gloucester is a confluence of two powerful weather fronts and a hurricane, which the crew underestimates.Īs the crew of Andrea Gail battles the raging sea, a strong wind breaks the ship's radio antenna just as Hurricane Grace and the northern weather front merges with each other atop them. After amassing thousands of pounds of fish, the ice machine breaks down the only way to sell their catch before it spoils is to hurry back to shore. Initially unsuccessful, they head to the Flemish Cap, where their luck greatly improves. The crew heads out past their usual fishing grounds on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, leaving a developing tropical storm behind them. Desperate to redeem himself, Captain Tyne convinces the Andrea Gail crew to join him for one more late-season fishing expedition. Boat owner Bob Brown ridicules and taunts Captain Billy Tyne over his recent "cold streak". In October 1991, the commercial swordfishing boat Andrea Gail returns to port in Gloucester, Massachusetts, with a poor catch.