It's christmas on the east Malaysian coast. The 18 crew under Captain Ronel Acueza Andrin should be celebrating in the ways sailors the world over do when separated from their families. Instead they are battling through an infuriating two-week loading process, with eight full days lost to the caprices of the tropics - the highest monthly rainfall ever recorded in Kuantan -and crane malfunctions. Come New Year's Eve, finally on their way to the coast of China, the men usher in 2015 with a single glass of Champagne at midnight. Two days later, only the chief cook is left alive. On 2 January 2015 the Bulk Jupiter developed an approximately 45° list to starboard and foundered completely in less than 20 minutes, leaving 16 crew missing, two (the master and chief officer) pulled dead from the sea and one - the cook - rescued after more than eight hours in the water.
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