The bear necessities

As we sat and waited in Tokyo Bay for one typhoon after another to pass, we were reluctant to start working our way through our carefully acquired pile of paperbacks; the sail to Alaska would be a long one and we’d need all the reading material we had. So every evening we scanned the diminishing list of obscure movies that we had copied to our laptop over the past year.

One night it was The Guardian. The opening sequence is exciting and seemed quite relevant. A terrific storm is raging at sea and a middle-aged couple abandon their foundering sailboat in the middle of the night. But then we hear the noise of a chopper. Bright lights appear in the black sky. The US Coastguard are coming to the rescue. As a chisel-jawed rescue diver - Kevin Costner - drops into the heavy seas, the husband brutally elbows his wife out of the way: he wants to be the first to be hauled