Long-standing NBT member Doug Faunt was amongst fourteen crew members of the HMS Bounty who were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday.

Two rescue helicopters took the surviving crew to the Coast Guard Air Station in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, with no life-threatening conditions reported.

Doug later posted on Facebook the following statements “The ship sank beneath us, but we swam free and mostly got into two rafts… We’re grieving for Claudene Christian and hoping for (Captain) Robin (Walbridge). Surface units wil be out tonight and air search resumes early tomorrow.”

The Bounty sank some time after taking on water, having earlier lost power after one of its generators failed. Built in 1960 and used in Marlon Brando’s 1962 movie “Mutiny On The Bounty”, it was a replica of the original HMS Bounty, infamous for a mutiny in Tahiti in 1789.