As weather systems go, it was perfect - a storm of almost impossible magnitude that doomed a fishing vessel off the North Atlantic in 1991. The movie stars George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg.
George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg star in The Perfect Storm (2000), a movie detailing the storm that killed a boat full of fishermen from Gloucester, Mass., in 1991.
The Andrea Gail was the Gloucester, Mass., fishing vessel featured in The Perfect Storm (1991). After a storm of unprecedented magnitude, the gallant crew met its end.
Last night was worth it. There's nothin like sleepin' with you... just sleepin'... lyin next to you... all warm and sweet... Me wishin' the mornin' would never come...
Linda Greenlaw: I knew Billy Tyne, but I did not know his crew very well, but any man who sailed with him, must have been the better for it. Robert Shatford, Dale Murphy, Micheal Moran, David Sullivan, Alfred Pierre... May you rest easy long-liners, in fair winds, and calm seas... For those of us left behind, the vast unmarked grave which is home for those lost at sea is no consolation. It can't be visited, there is no headstone on which to rest a bunch of flowers... The only place we can revisit them, is in our hearts, or in our dreams. They say swordboatmen suffer from a lack of dreams, that's what begets their courage... Well we'll dream for you: Billy, and Bobby, and Murph, Bugsy, Sully, and Alfred Pierre... Sleep well... Good Night...
