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Could this work? (two possible ways to escape)

posted 14 years ago by geistes
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Just watched the movie and I constantly thought that there might have been one (in fact maybe two) solutions to escape the water.

1. Imagine one person floating near the boat. Three persons dive beneath it trying to push the floating person upwards. At the same time a fourth person climbs onto the floating person and tries to jump to the top. Dunno if possible...

2. If you look at the bow of the yacht you see two notches (where the water floats out during the storm). One person could have grabbed the two notches while another person climbed onto the shoulders of the first one. From there it should have been possible to jump to the top.

What do you think?

[–] cookiela2001 10 years ago

"Imagine one person floating near the boat. Three persons dive beneath it trying to push the floating person upwards. At the same time a fourth person climbs onto the floating person and tries to jump to the top. Dunno if possible..."

This sounds like a recipe for disaster. (Tho acknowledged, they were set to die, anyway...)

[–] homercles11 9 years ago

Umm they had a knife, the boat was fiberglass, the boat even had a cut away for the diving thing

DIG a hand hold or 2 and voila! Saved

[–] Neuronhead 8 years ago

The lightest woman sits on the second lightest's shoulders. The four remaining lift those girls. I don't know if that would work, but I would have at least tried it.

The lightest woman should have tried climbing the clothes rope. She might not have the upper body strength to use her arms only, but she could also use her feet.

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