BBC Bounty Voyage

The series titled Mutiny, was to recreate one of the world’s greatest survival feats at sea – the 1789 voyage led by Captain William Bligh following a mutiny on board the British navy ship HMS Bounty. Cast adrift from the ship, Bligh and 18 loyal men spent the next 48 days confronting some of the world’s most remote and unforgiving seas in an open, keel-less, 7-metre-long boat. It was thanks to brilliant navigation, and despite the terrible sailing conditions and most meagre of rations, that they successfully navigated the 6,500 kilometres to safety.

“I’ve never worked with a better bunch in 20 years of film and television.”

Windfall Films

More than 220 years later, and for the first time, Windfall’s movie was to re-enact in detail the grueling journey – sending nine men across the Pacific Ocean from the south of Tofua (near Tonga) to Kupang in West Timor, in a replica boat, with the same rations, and of course in the same sailing conditions. 
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Windfall was looking for support from a seasoned specialist with local knowledge and experience, and the navigation skills needed to get the actors and support crew to the right locations at the right times. It also required Seaworks to provide accommodation and supplies for the entire team, and a base for the sailors’ pitifully small ration of a barrel of food a day. 

Not surprisingly, the seven Seaworks crew members aboard MV Seasurveyor thoroughly enjoyed the month-long, 19,000-kilometre voyage. They were especially pleased to learn that, when it screened on the BBC’s Channel 4, Mutiny was rated highly by the critics.

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