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Transcript analysisComputed from the caption text
Words
181
Runtime
5:22
Speaking pace
34wpm
Reading time
1min
34 words per minute, below the 160 25th percentile of 349 measured videos. That distribution comes from the 349-video hook study.
Opening (first 30 seconds)
in 1966 there was a terrible storm of the South Coast at still by three boats were
17 words, the words spoken in the first 30 seconds at 34 words per minute.
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Sentence shape
| Measure | This transcript |
|---|---|
| Sentences | 1 |
| Average words per sentence | 181.0 |
| Longest sentence | 181 words |
| Questions asked | 0 |
| Sentences containing a number | 1 |
Most used terms
- south4
- institute3
- rescue3
- terrible3
- african2
- national2
- patty2
- rescue institute2
- sea2
- sea rescue2
- service2
- south african2
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Transcript
in 1966 there was a terrible storm of the South Coast at still by three boats were lost and 17 fishermen perished in the storm this is the story of umer daa one of the Skippers out on that terrible night and how he saved his crew it's also the story of how the national sea rescue Institute began profession for and feu and the and man and a life boy and on and to set a fre SEC spell Patty price a swimming instructor in simonstown read about this terrible incident in the newspapers moved by the lack of a sea rescue Institute in South Africa and having been rescued by the Royal National Lifeboat Institute Patty started an intensive letter writing campaign and in 1967 the South African inore rescue service was born the proud tradition of volunteer service was started by the first two seagoing members Captain Bob Deacon and Ray Lunt today we have hundreds of unpaid volunteers along the South African Coastline including still Bay in the hope of preventing such a tragedy from happening again
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