white squall film
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 teenagers 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. The film is based on the fate of the brigantine Albatross , which sank 2 May 1961, allegedly because of a white squall . The film relates the ill-fated school sailing trip led by Dr. Christopher B. Sheldon ...