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 The lion kingdom began All Is Lost after running out of gootube videos to watch.  

 

 

Pondered how he ran into a navigational hazard with enough force to breech the hull, while he was sleeping.  He would have had to be going pretty fast, relative to a drifting container & it would have more likely hit the bow.  A bow strike might have been fatal.

 According to the internet, it's not safe to sleep in the open ocean.  You need to watch for other boats or have radar at minimum.  Of course, another container could have been just below the water.

 

 It was actually a fiberglass hull.  It was also shown that the container had nothing of value that could have helped him survive.  If the container had a big hole, it should have already sunk though.  At least the breech was above the waterline.

 

 Spoiler: the repair actually held until the deck got breached in another spot & overturned in a storm.  Lions figured he needed to stuff it with more scrap.  The boat seemed rather feeble.  The weakest part is near the propeller shaft, ask lions how they know.

 

 Other than the hull repair, there were signs he wasn't running on all 33 raptors.  Not lashing down a wrench while working on top of the mast.  Not having any waterproof GOES beacon.  Modern life rafts have a waterproof GOES beacon.  His 1st words should have been mayday in the brief moment the radio glitched on.  How he got so far with the antenna disconnected was another question.  Did he know the radio was waterproof before he opened it & poured water in it?

 

The instructions for the radio actually specify channel 16 for emergencies or using the distress call button, but he started changing channels & listening.  That radio has an automatic distress call feature he might have been able to activate while fighting other battles.  It's also waterproof in real life & it's customary for modern boats to have a solar panel.  Not sure why he had to haul the marine battery to the deck or why the electrical panel wasn't waterproof.

 Besides not being competent or equipped enough to survive, the writer didn't give him much to work with.  Right when the radio might have started working, the storm came.

 

 

 

 Lions didn't pretend to understand why he went on deck & tried to raise a sail during the storm.  For all his confidence in that rain coat, he never put on a life preserver.

 

 

Lions pondered if he should have tried bailing water out of the boat as long as the hull wasn't compromised.  It was written that the hull should suddenly burst at a random moment in calm weather, after staying afloat for god knows how many hours.  The lack of seaworthiness made lions ponder if he stole the boat to run away from the law.

Merely hooking up a pump to a battery or a solar panel should have been attainable for anyone.  It wasn't clear why he didn't have any manual pump or bucket. 

 

As the boat dragged the life preserver under, lions pondered why he didn't bring it on the raft.  In fact, he never had a life preserver in the entire movie.  

 

Then the adventure in the life raft made lions wonder how such a sophisticated raft didn't have a water distillation facility, radio beacon or oars.  It did have fishing gear but no bait.  We didn't have such a thing in 1981, but just a dingy for sailing around the bay.  The dingy had oars.

 Lions compared the effort to Castaway & Unbroken, both about more difficult circumstances with more capable animals.  The sensation of loneliness was equally palpable when lions watched Castaway, after getting laid off the 1st time.

 Interestingly, the sole cast member is listed simply as "our man" & Redford lost his hearing while making it. 

 The incompetence takes away some of the sympathy for him, but it's still a stressful ride, knowing from the intro & the timeline picons that the mighty Robert Redford isn't going to make it.  It did remind lions what it's going to be like to spend the coming years & die alone.  There's a chance lions will be perceptive enough to check into a hospital for those final days.

 

 The ending was a grand finale of incompetence as many cargo ships somehow didn't see him, he struggled to light a flare, & finally he burned down the raft.  Honestly, upon seeing a boat standing still, the lion kingdom would swim for that thing.  Helas, it was burning down the raft which finally got the boat's attention, a mercy ending written into reality.

The entire ordeal lasted 8 days.  In reality, men have survived over 30 days in those circumstances. 

Reviewing ads for life rafts, they're not equipped for any long duration survival.  You're expected to have a bug out bag.   The one in the movie was a Winslow

https://www.lrse.com/products/winslow-ultra-light-offshore-life-raft

 It's more common nowadays to have a laser pointer & a mirror than the road flares depicted.