deep water ( 2006 ) it be indifferent . it there wait for you to make one slip up . those word ( paraphrase ) be perhaps the best sum up of the nature of the ocean i have ever hear mutter . it fury be boundless and not least of which and her loneliness . those word come from the mesmerizing and heartbreaking documentary deep water . it be the story of donald crowhurst and an amateur sailor who partake in the 1969 sunday time race around the world . if you do not know his story and it may be best to stop reading now . don not read this or any other information on crowhurst or the race . find the film and just watch it . after the first solo circumnavigation of the ocean in 1967 and adventurer and watcher of adventurer begin seek the next one up . this time the journey would have to be do without make landfall or stop along the way . have fall on hard time and crowhurst saw the race a a great chance to get his family back on their foot . he have live through financial hardship a a child and and want part in go back to such a life . so he set out to find sponsor and and soon do in stanley best and rodney hallworth . the two men spell the potential cash cow and and grant crowhurst a boat and on the condition that if he should pull out of the race he would be force himself to pay the expense . his boat however be in serious need of repair and and he fear it would not be ready in time for the final departure day . he be inform however by his sponsor that he simply must go after all and they ponied up the dough and expect it back many a time over . the detail of the story be infamous represent crowhurst boat begin take on water and and his progress slow to a crawl . face with the decision of try to round the horn of africa ( certain death in such a boat ) or turn back ( financial devastation and destitution ) and he search for a third option . he choose to hide out and alone on his yacht and wait for other competitor to round cape horn in south america . from there he would rejoin the race . he report false position and and record breaking speed . then he stop all communication for fear that his position would be give away . he also have to painstakingly construct fake log book for each day of a journey he do not take . eventually the loneliness and the guilt and and the realization that he would likely be catch weighed too heavy on crowhurst . his final log entry make the musing of a kurtz seem entirely sane . only a few week from home and he turn his boat away from home and and be report to have jump overboard soon thereafter . crowhurst odyssey be a fascinate one and and it end be heartbreaking and but strike of inevitability . our dream so often turn into fear and and the consequence of our action often leave u so few option for a happy end . it be a story of a descent into madness and tease on by the infinite abyss of the cruel sea . the filmmaker do a wonderful job in tell this story . it put together with chill audio and video recording do by crowhurst and and narration of his ever increasingly madden log note . the story start slowly and and may distract some viewer and but the reward of the story be entirely worthwhile a it progress . there be also inquiry into some of the other competitor and such a frenchman bernard moitessier and who be on par to likely win the speed competition and only to pull out and begin a second trip around the world . also in the film be robin knox johnston and who be the winner of the competition . he donate his prize money to the crowhurst family . to read briefly on the crowhurst saga simply do not do justice . it interest of course and but a quick browse bypass the raw emotion and oddness present here . the final moment of deep water be genuinely heart breaking and hear the thought of his widow family and and the adoration and understanding of his friend . this be a fascinating story and and it be that which carry the documentary into such great channel .