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Dale Murphy (Murph)
Alfred Pierre is a crew member on the Andrea Gail. The ship’s only black crew member, he was originally from Jamaica and lived in New York City. Pierre was shy and not well known around Gloucester, but seemed to be well liked. He had a girlfriend in Maine. He disappears along with the rest of the crew during the storm.
Alfred Pierre Quotes in The Perfect Storm
The The Perfect Storm quotes below are all either spoken by Alfred Pierre or refer to Alfred Pierre. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Graveyard of the Atlantic
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The Andrea Gail crew, all experienced fishermen, are probably trying to shrug it off as just another storm—they’ve been through this before, they'll go through it again, and at least they're not puking. Billy's undoubtedly working too hard at the helm to give drowning much thought. Ernie Hazard claims it was the last thing on his mind. "There was no conversation, just real business-like," he says of going down off Georges Bank. "You know, 'Let’s just get this thing done.'” […]
Be that as it may, certain realities still must come crashing in. At some point Tyne, Shatford, Sullivan, Moran, Murphy, and Pierre must realize there's no way off this boat.
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The Zero-Moment Point
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The body could be likened to a crew that resorts to increasingly desperate measures to keep their vessel afloat. Eventually the last wire has shorted out, the last bit of decking has settled under the water. Tyne, Pierre, Sullivan, Moran, Murphy, and Shatford are dead.
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