father and son end up in a fist fight and become further estranged by the visit and the fight. Frank gets drunk and comes to the party and has to be escorted out by Chuck, Gil and Dean. After a night of festivities, the crew set out to sea again on the next day. When the brigantine encounters a school of dolphins, Frank, still angry at his father, vents his fury by shooting one of the dolphins with a harpoon. Skipper demands Frank at least put the animal out of its misery, but he can't bring himself to, so Skipper kills it, then tells Frank he's been expelled from the program and puts him ashore at the next port. The day he leaves, Frank apologizes to Skipper for the incident on the boat and is given a farewell by Gil, who gets the courage to climb up the ropes to ring the bell for Frank, which symbolizes ‘Where we go one, we go all’. Soon after, while at sea, the brigantine encounters a freakish white squall storm. The vessel is battered by the seas, and the boys try to use what the Skipper has taught them in order to survive the horrific ordeal. Most of them succeed in abandoning the vessel, but Gil, Dean, Skipper's wife, and the cook George Ptacnik, all drown. When the survivors are rescued and reach land, Skipper is put on trial, with Frank's powerful parents leading the call for his license to be revoked. Eventually, the Skipper refuses to allow anyone else to be blamed for the disaster, and accepts responsibility, but his former students all stand up for him, and Frank turns against his bullying parents to support the Skipper, as all of the boys embrace him. The end credits explain that in reality six people died in total (four students) and dedicates the film to them. Cast Jeff Bridges as Captain Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon Caroline Goodall as Alice Sheldon John Savage as McCrea Scott Wolf as Chuck Gieg Jeremy Sisto as Frank Beaumont Ryan Phillippe as Gil Martin Eric Michael Cole as Dean Preston Julio Oscar Mechoso as Girard Pascal Balthazar Getty as Tod Johnstone Jason Marsden as Shay Jennings David Lascher as Robert March Ethan Embry as Tracy Lapchick David Selby as Francis Beaumont Jordan Clarke as Charles Gieg, Sr. Željko Ivanek as Capt. Sanders James Rebhorn as Capt. Tyler Jill Larson