Deep Water is a 2006 documentary about a yacht race around the world and the nine men who took up the challenge. In 1968, a British newspaper put up a reward for the first person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a yacht, and they had a separate prize for the person to do it the fastest. They gave a five-month window for the contestants to get started, and eight experienced sailors made their way out to sea, each alone in their own vessels, and at the very last second, a ninth inexperienced man made it out into the water with a boat he built himself, and of course this documentary focuses mostly on this final man, as his story predictably is the most interesting and crazy. But the entire race is incredibly interesting, and let's just say there is a reason why this is not a regular event. What really makes this documentary is how the newspaper gave every sailor their own camera and audio recorder, so they were able to get some incredible open sea footage and record their stir crazy thoughts that really puts us the viewer in the same mind set as the sailors, and helps us really understand how hard this task was and what they all went through. This is a fascinating film and definitely worth watching, so dig it on the Netflix.
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