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[aggienaut]

HMS Bounty nearly 24 hours ago now. 14 of 16 crewmembers were rescued safely.

Been following the news like hawk all day, and it makes me a bit mad when I see people expressing sadness for the loss of the ship without mentioning the missing crew. Yeah it was a cool ship, lord knows I love tallships, but people died here. ):

Photo credit: Coast Guard.

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[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh she must have been my friend Morgan's replacement -- Morgan was the cook but got off right before the fateful sail. What's your friend's name?

[occasionally.livejournal.com]

Jessica. She'd been working on boats around the Caribbean, private charters and whatnot. I'd not talked to her lately, but I know she'd been wanting to work up to doing some more fun stuff.

Hopefully this doesn't scare her off from her dream.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hopefully not. The surviving crew is lucky to have gotten away with their lives, but of course they've lost all the personal possessions they had on board d: