According to a leaked parliamentary report, several cadets on the Gorch Fock were reluctant to climb the mast in November following the death of a 25-year-old student - known only as Sarah S - during a stop-over in Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
She also had to climb up the 80 foot mast on her boat, Pindar, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as hand-stitch her giant mainsail with 1, 500 stitches after it ripped in half.