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Last night we watched the 2012 Icelandic movie Djúpið (aka The Deep).
It tells the remarkable story of fisherman Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, known as Gulli.
Following his ship's capsizing several miles off the Heimaey archipelago, South of Iceland, he swam to shore, surviving some 6.5 hours in sub-zero waters and then another couple of hours, hiking barefoot across lava fields and a rocky plateau until he reached a village.
He was (and still is - he's going strong at almost 60 now) a rather corpulent man and the subsequent scientific research cited that as a factor in his survival, whereas his younger, fitter shipmates all perished within 10 minutes or so.
It's a remarkable film, with the lead played perfectly by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and we get to see an interview with the real Gulli during the end credits. Available now on Prime Video.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764275/
It tells the remarkable story of fisherman Guðlaugur Friðþórsson, known as Gulli.
Following his ship's capsizing several miles off the Heimaey archipelago, South of Iceland, he swam to shore, surviving some 6.5 hours in sub-zero waters and then another couple of hours, hiking barefoot across lava fields and a rocky plateau until he reached a village.
He was (and still is - he's going strong at almost 60 now) a rather corpulent man and the subsequent scientific research cited that as a factor in his survival, whereas his younger, fitter shipmates all perished within 10 minutes or so.
It's a remarkable film, with the lead played perfectly by Ólafur Darri Ólafsson and we get to see an interview with the real Gulli during the end credits. Available now on Prime Video.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1764275/