Sailing, A SCARY NIGHT at Anchor A SCARY NIGHT at Anchor and a DIVE into HISTORY We anchor at Ollat Island where we are asked to help a medical team visiting from Majuro. Their ice packs are rapidly melting and the vaccines they are carrying are in danger of spoiling... We dive on a couple of wrecks that have a very famous history and snorkel with a beautiful Zebra shark . We then have a VERY scary night at anchor as a midnight squall swings us towards some shallow coral. Please subscribe to our channel if you enjoy these videos . And leave us some comments -we love to know what you think 🙂 Footage from March 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ☕️ Want to Buy us a Coffee? Support our videos: https://ko-fi.com/sailingdoubletrouble 🌎 Blogs and updates on the website: https://sailingdoubletrouble.com 💁🏼‍♀️ Photos and real time stuff here: https://www.facebook.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 📷 Random Travel Pics and updates: https://www.instagram.com/sailingdoubletrouble/ 👉Subscribe to our channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 👩‍❤️‍👨About us : Hello and welcome to our channel! We are Jo and Rob and we are here to share our sailing adventures with you. In 2016, inspired by the likes of ‘Delos’, ‘Sailing La Vagabonde’ and ‘Gone with The Wynns’, we sold up everything we owned and bought our 40ft, Fountaine Pajot ‘Lipari 41 Evo’ sailing catamaran ‘Double Trouble’. We had no sailing experience whatsoever, so the past few years have been a huge learning curve. We thought it might be fun to document our travels for anyone thinking of following a similar lifestyle. So far we have visited 7 different countries and sailed over 13,000 nautical miles. We have had many unique experiences that would not have been possible in our prior life and we don’t regret a second. We're both super keen on protecting our precious environment, so amongst other things, we both follow a plant based diet. You wont find any fishing footage on this channel! Subscribe now and join us as we continue our salty travels around the world. https://www.youtube.com/c/SailingDoubleTrouble?sub_confirmation=1 👏Credits: Thanks to 'Shure ' microphones for voiceover sound. 🎼Music: DT Theme tune - 'Happy' by MBB https://soundcloud.com/mbbofficial Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/g6swHZbWtRc 🎧Other Music: Epidemic Sound Library #sailingdoubletrouble MaloelapAtoll

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well at least probably with the corona

virus what happens if we run out of sort

of

requests

i can't actually speak to my mouth

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they're very good are you enjoying them

then

they're really good unfortunately i

opened them and then i realized she did

whitening

so waste not one

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we're sailing but we're celebrating just

got the headset out

it's only three it's only uh two miles

up the way

it's pretty chill it's a nice little

stop there wasn't it

really nice let's see what all that

island has to offer

yes a little village apparently so we're

gonna have a little explore and a bit of

a socialise a couple of rock dives

here we are at anchor off olat island

the chain's in about 15 meters over

there we're sitting in about 25 because

the shelf's off

it's pretty protected in here it's all

looking pretty nice

i'm sure at all that island and here are

the welcoming committee

yo quay how are you

james bond is well known on the islands

and oversees the local health center

we went ashore to introduce ourselves

and we were asked if we could help a

medical team visiting from measurable

hospital

they were undertaking a measles

vaccination scheme but unfortunately the

island freezer wasn't working

unable to refreeze the ice packs the

vaccines were in grave danger of

spoiling

we offered up our freezers and managed

to refreeze the ice packs overnight

how many yachties does it take to fix a

solar system

is it going well further on than we were

when we started

leaving the village and there's another

boat on the horizon

i say i'm not sure we want company

the new arrival into the anchorage was a

beautiful locally built traditional cat

moran

bringing supplies to the island

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the local boat left early the next

morning having delivered the essentials

to the shop

curtis and rob then made another trip

ashore and set to work wiring up the

solar panels to run the shop's freezer

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so you went in the into the village to

help them with some electrical stuff

yeah we've wired up

a new solar panel for the shop what have

you come back with

uh we have a couple of bread fruits and

a couple of drinking coconuts for the

day

well done so did are they pleased with

what happened i think so

yeah it's it's working more than it was

when we arrived so that's a good thing

oh result lunch then a dive let's do

that

at all has three shipwrecks we had dived

the terashima meru whilst at tarouwa

island

the sunken wreckage of a japanese

freighter was damaged by a torpedo from

a u.s submarine in 1943.

it reportedly still has live depth

charges inside

although fortunately we didn't find any

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the kaiku muru and the seishi maru are

sunken japanese patrol boats and offered

up a very enjoyable scuba dive

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both were sunk off olet island during a

bombing raid by u.s military forces

during world war

ii

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the kaiku maru was notable for the

rescue and transport of the now famous

american prisoner

of war captive louis zamparini

on may the 27th 1943 during a search and

rescue operation

zamparini's plane experienced mechanical

difficulties and crashed into the ocean

only three crewmen survived zamparini

phillips and mcnamara sadly mcnamara

perished after 33 days at sea

zamparinian phillips remained adrift for

a total of 47 days before being captured

by the kaiko meru

zamporini was then taken to a prison

camp in japan where he was incarcerated

for the remainder of the war

for those of you who want to know more

about his ordeal the book

and later the movie unbroken tells his

story

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just had a lovely dive

now we're swimming back to the boat

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ah this is the light driving off the

back of the boat

oh i think i've overshot

well friday night yeah sundown

o'clock on double trouble it's a stunner

it's a bit breezy but it's a lovely

breeze i have to say it's very

refreshing yes it's a wonderful

temperature and it's been a wonderful

day and a wonderful week

it was actually yes well we're just

discussing that we are in the midst of

corona virus

madness the world has gone crazy it has

it's the 20th of march today yes

and pretty much every country has closed

its borders yeah

so it looks like we might be in the

marshall islands for a wee bit longer

than we intended to be because we were

going to go to vanuatu

and they've just announced today that

they've closed their borders they have

cook islands is closed french not

available

in fairness it's going to be quite safe

it's just out of the typhoon belt i

think they don't get them

yeah very often here from a weather

perspective it's

uh it's somewhat benign

well yeah and i mean in there we're in

their winter now

and in their summer apparently the um

the trade winds we're getting quite

strong north

easterlies constantly at the moment and

they they fall away apparently and

it's a very very pleasant sailing up

here and from what we've seen of the

outer islands

so far yeah we'd be able to amuse

ourselves for

the foreseeable the outer island

laid back village life is fabulous

more updates on those as they happen

from the newsroom but in the meantime

it's uh sundown o'clock

you have a rum i believe i do and i have

a gin and

what's in here coconut and pineapple

very tropical

cheers cheers happy friday

olet island had been lovely like terror

it was littered with world war

ii relics but it was time to move just a

little bit further north

here we are anchor down at tar island

in amongst the bombies

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and we are the only boat in the village

fisherman's hut here

on the beach got their solar panel set

up

and a collection of flip-flops

this is just before i have to apply

bandages to rob's feet

don't think you've got you've quite got

the coconut tree climbing skills

i think you're going to hurt yourself

oh no he's done it oh

good boy i had so little faith in you

man you've got to get down yet

there's one

two nice yeah yeah lovely

you got any skin left on your feet oh

that looked sore

this is rob's new machete everybody

it's not rusty yet

you did all the hard work you get first

drink

how is it perfect

it's hitting the spot now yeah

after a long but very hot walk on the

beach it was time to cool off with a

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snorkel we hadn't been in the water long

before we had the privilege of a visit

from a very laid-back zebra shark

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the wind was forecast to pick up so the

next morning we set off south again to

find a bit more shelter

how's it going honey well it's a windy

day uh

we've got two roofs in the main and if

it keeps going like this we're gonna

have to drop it all together in a minute

so we're getting gusts of 34 and 35

so yeah it's a feisty day inside the

lagoon

well it's three in the morning and

uh we are on anchor watch

we've just had a wind school that has

spun the wind around

and we're now sitting on a lee shore so

uh

we've already floated over a bombing um

that we were a bit concerned about

it was uh a meter below us so that was

that was fine but um

yeah we have mana in front of us

uh and i'm not sure if they're moving if

they're lifting their anchor

and uh yeah we're probably gonna have

another couple of hours of this at least

so it looks like we're going around the

dial which

it always happens at night it always

happens with no moon so we're

we're having a long night oh that's the

uh the engine's off

the noise you hear is our

back transoms coming in and out of the

water because it's uh

it's still a bit rough we've just had

sustained

20 plus knot winds on a leash or

the wind has stopped or fallen off a

little bit

and we're just going to monitor the

situation but um

hopefully it will swing back round

normally and we'll just sit pretty and

it will

go back to normal and we can get some

sleep but for now

i think we've still got a bit of a well

it's six a.m

the wind has finally fallen off a little

bit still at a funny angle so we're

basically facing the shore um

we have so far avoided bombies but it is

daybreak

so hopefully when the sun comes up uh

lift

our anchor and get out of here so yeah

we're gonna try a different anchorage

now

that was a very very long night

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