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" Update: As of Thursday, Nov. 1, the Coast Guard suspended the search for Capt. Walbridge.  The HMS Bounty, a 180-foot sailboat, is shown submerged in the Atlantic Ocean during Hurricane Sandy approximately 90 miles southeast of Hatteras, N.C., Monday, Oct. 29, 2012. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Tim Kuklewski) The Coast Guard continues to scour the &amp;quot;Graveyard of the Pacific Atlantic&amp;quot; for signs of HMS Bounty captain Robin Walbridge, days after the 63-year-old mariner and his crew abandoned ship into the furor of Hurricane Sandy. &amp;quot;Three people were washed off the boat into the water. Of those three people only one of them made it into the life raft,&amp;quot; says Coast Guard Petty Officer First Class Brandyn Hill. One of the two who didn&amp;#039;t make it in was Walbridge. The other was 42-year-old crew member Claudene Christian, who died at sea and whose body was recovered by the Coast Guard on Monday. The Bounty, a replica of the late 18th century British vessel, was built in 1962 for the film Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando. (Its more recent credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man&amp;#039;s Chest). Between shoots, the ship port-hopped as a tourist attraction.  At the time of the sinking, the Bounty was en route to Florida with 16 crew on board. Fourteen of them were airlifted from seas with 25-foot waves early Monday morning by two MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters. Each aircrew deployed a Coast Guard rescue swimmer on a hoist cable into the frothing waters. The swimmers loaded each survivor from the life rafts into a metal rescue basket, which was then hauled up into the helicopter. All 14 recovered sailors were reported to be in stable condition\u2014in large part thanks to their life-saving cold-water survival suits. Walbridge was also seen wearing such a suit before he was washed from the boat. With water temperatures of about 77 degrees, it is possible\u2014though unlikely\u2014the captain could survive several days at sea. For now, the Coast Guard is still considering the search a rescue effort, with cutters and aircraft methodically completing computer-plotted search patterns. &amp;quot;Our first priority is to save the captain&amp;#039;s life,&amp;quot; Hill says. Whether or not that effort is successful, the Coast Guard w soon ill be devoting considerable resources to investigating the tragedy\u2014and the decision-making that led the Bounty to attempt to skirt a dangerous hurricane.      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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