The distance from the main door to the area in front of the winch room is only 12 to 15 steps so he may have walked out expecting to quickly check and see what was happening without putting on his "wearing coat" and once he turned the corner, he too was caught by the wind and carried away over the wall and cliff. However, if Ducat and Marshall had donned their weatherproof gear to walk out into the courtyard area to investigate, for instance, the banging door of where the winch room was, a powerful wind would be funnelled between the side of the lighthouse and the outer wall and the men could have been picked up and taken over the wall and straight over the nearby cliff on the other side of the wall.Īfter a while, Donald Macarthur may have been wondering what had happened to his colleagues and as he was not part of the work detail so to speak (ie Ducat and Marshall were expecting to be out in the bad weather for a while hence the waterproof gear), he decided to quickly look out and see what was taking them so long. If the wind was that bad, they would have had a hard time approaching it from the direction of the lighthouse itself in any event. This, of course, is only if they were hit by the wind at the West Landing area at the top of the cliff there. Muirhead says there would have been time to throw themselves down flat on the ground before reaching the cliffs on the other side. Muirhead commented that the wind would have been going up the slope but this assumes that the men were down in the area of the West Landing or the cliffs on top of it. The first comments from Captain Harvie and that of Robert Muirhead concerned the wind rather than the waves and appears to have been the first reaction of both men. Below is an expansion of some of some of the other areas covered in the book WIND VORTEX The wave theory has been well covered in literature and by discussion of Walter Aldebert's view on what happened to the three men. Aldebert asks us to believe that one man either fell in or was swept away by a freak wave and then asks us to believe that another one then came along and swept the other two away as well. In his report Aldebert suggests that "the wind lessens" - it didn't, it was getting worse from that morning right up until 6/7pm when it was just below storm force. Walter Aldebert's theory of a man being swept away by a freak wave is fairly credible but his theory took no account of the weather that day.Would he have jeopardised his life and that of the others to walk down to a landing that was being hammered by winds and 30ft to 40ft waves which were building up to just below storm force? ![]() James Ducat had 22 years of experience of lighthouse keeping to call on.Leading on from item 2, again why did they leave a trip to the West Landing so late in the day as the weather was getting worse, not better? It built up from the morning throughout the day until the early evening that day and then started to lessen in strength.Even if they had gone down to the west landing that day then why did they leave it so late in the day when most Lighthouse keepers would tell you that jobs like this are usually done in the morning? The daylight would have been fading as well as it was mid-December.They had already had time the previous week to secure the ropes, which was the supposed reason for going down to the West Landing area.However, this picture was neither taken by Hoshino nor recorded the circumstances of his death: it’s an entry from a Worth1000 Photoshop competition in which contestants were tasked with creating “a last-photo hoax: the final photograph of the victim, whoever he might be, had a camera on him right before ‘it’ happens.A number of people have commented on this theory including ex-Keepers to say that a giant wave sweeping all the men away is a possibility, but far from being necessarily the only conclusion. : The putative victim named in the text accompanying this image, Michio Hoshino, was in fact a real wildlife photographer who died after being mauled by a brown bear on the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia in August 1996. Female bears are especially dangerous when they are protecting their young. Generally, brown bears do not attack humans unless they are provoked or feel threatened. This photograph is allegedly the last image Hoshino ever took and shows his killer. ![]() He was killed by a brown bear in his own tent while on assignment in Russia. It was in Russia’s Kurilshoye Lake in 1996, however, that Michio Hoshino’s own story came to a tragic end. Often compared to Ansel Adams, the Japanese-born Michio Hoshino was an award-winning nature photographer who specialized in photographing Alaskan wildlife.
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