White Squall 1996 Movie Trailer (Jeff Bridges, Scott Wolf)
White Squall is a 1996 American disaster survival feature film, directed by Ridley Scott. It is a coming of age film in which a group of high school and college age teen-agers sign up for several months of training aboard a sail ship, a brigantine, and travel around half the globe when suddenly they are challenged by a severe storm. The film stars Jeff Bridges in the role of the captain, called "Skipper", his wife played by Caroline Goodall, and a supporting cast portraying a group of nearly a dozen student sailors.
(Scott Free Productions is a British film and television production company founded by filmmakers and brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.)
A white squall is a sudden and violent windstorm at sea which is not accompanied by the black cloudsgenerally characteristic of a squall. It manifests as a sudden increase in wind velocity in tropical and sub-tropical waters, and may be a microburst.[1] The name refers to the white-capped waves and broken water, its meager warning to any unlucky seaman caught in its path. A white squall was allegedly behind the sinking of the brigantine Albatross on May 2, 1961.[citation needed] White squalls are rare at sea, but common on the Great Lakes of North America.
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