P&O Pacific Jewel On Board Fun & Entertainment South Pacific Bounty Adventure Cruise Oct 2011

Check out My new MyCruise Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/153069/636073-mycruise-podcast-ep-1 FREE CRUISE SHIP MAGAZINE (E-MAGAZINE) http://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/dtxj If you like Cruise ship holidays or would like to find out more than this is the magazine for you Good News: MyCruise Magazine totally FREE subscription. To help make the MyCruise Magazine even better I would like to encourage you to share the magazine link with your colleague’s family and friends. If you would like to be added to the VIP subscription please send an email to mycruisemagazine@bigpond.com and in the subject area place the word (subscription) Here is the link to the 1st issue of MyCruise Magazine: http://fliphtml5.com/icmw/ibti This video has been featured in the MyCruise Magazine as a active link from the magazine www.mycruisemagazine.com.au Skip Film Productions Australia www.skipfilms.com.au Producer Noel Sadler On the bridge of the cruise ship Pacific Jewel, a slip of paper is placed on the console in front of me. On it is written, "Ten minutes to mutiny site". I continue talking into the console's microphone from which my words are being broadcast throughout the ship. "By the night of 28 April 1789, Fletcher Christian's position on the Bounty had become intolerable. After abandoning his harebrained scheme to make a raft and leave the ship on it, he decided to take over the ship." Another slip of paper appears. It reads, "Five minutes to mutiny site." I go on. "Supported by others who had come to detest William Bligh, notably Matthew Quintal, Isaac Martin and Charles Churchill, at 5am Christian went to Bligh's cabin, held a cutlass to his throat and took over the command of the Bounty." Pacific Jewel, a 70,000 tonne P&O liner, is in Tongan waters, carrying 1910 passengers and 621 crew, retracing the story of the mutiny on the Bounty. I'm on the ship to deliver lectures on the mutiny and its aftermath. Many of the passengers have come on the cruise because of the Bounty theme. Already we've called at Norfolk Island, home to many Bounty mutineer descendants, and there are also mutineer descendants on Pacific Jewel. This morning, at 0950 hours, the ship is following precisely the course taken by the HMAV Bounty in 1789. A third slip of paper appears. The message reads, "Mutiny site reached." I announce, "Directly below us, at 19 south latitude and longitude 174 west, the mutiny on the Bounty took place." The tall, immaculately uniformed captain of Pacific Jewel, Canadian Tod McBain, takes over the microphone, which I'm sharing with him and David Pepper, the cruise director. The Captain announces to the ship, "Unfortunately we're unable to stop the engines here, due to wind and sea conditions, but we've passed over the mutiny site. And in a moment we'll be altering course slightly and heading for Tofua Island, 28 nautical miles NNE." Captain McBain, David and I are all Bounty mutiny aficionados, fascinated by this great sea story and its many repercussions. Staring down from Pacific Jewel's spacious bridge, hundreds of feet above the mutiny site, naturally the sea here looks no different from any other area of the South Pacific ocean. Yet in the annals of royal naval history this place's provenance is unique. Bending again to the microphone, I say, "There should be a huge marker buoy placed right here, with William Bligh's image on one side and Fletcher Christian's on the other, for the benefit of all passing ships and yachts." David Pepper and I differ about the relative merits of Bligh and Christian. (On The Best Cruise Ship In The World) P&O Pacific Jewel -On Board Fun & Entertainment - South Pacific - Bounty Adventure Cruise, Scrapheap challenge Noel Sadler Skip Film Productions www.skipfilms.com.au skipfilms@bigpond.com