If anyone has illusions about the joy of life on the ocean wave in days of yore this will dispel them. Even on such a magnificent and impressively preserved ship as the Star of India. There's horrible accidents to be had, loneliness, despair, guilt and, I thought, a suggestion of other, unspoken nastiness as well. Is it just me or do you also hear a "put me down!" from one young voice?
There's fun as the team volunteers for a small spot of the routine hard work that is involved in crewing a ship.
The special twist in this episode is a visit to an antique shop and the clever improvising of antique ghost detecting equipment: it does appear to work!
The modern high-tech equipment Zak and the boys generally use does sometimes make the ghost hunting seem less scary than it must be for those doing it. Moving round an unfamiliar place in complete darkness would be terrifying for most of us!
There's fun as the team volunteers for a small spot of the routine hard work that is involved in crewing a ship.
The special twist in this episode is a visit to an antique shop and the clever improvising of antique ghost detecting equipment: it does appear to work!
The modern high-tech equipment Zak and the boys generally use does sometimes make the ghost hunting seem less scary than it must be for those doing it. Moving round an unfamiliar place in complete darkness would be terrifying for most of us!