The "death rattle" was the sound of the anchor chain slipping unexpectedly over the edge of the boat, bringing us to a rather inelegant stop. Just bad seamanship, I'm afraid!
Seagull-related movies seem to be an underepresented genre on YouTube, and on the internet generally. I can't imagine why; it would be good to see some more.
Since contributing to the above discussion, I've noticed that someone - perhaps a follower of this thread - has created a British-Seagull group on Youtube (see: http://youtube.com/group/britishseagull). There are a few Seagull related movies on there at present, but it would be good to see some more.
In a similar spirit, I've just created a British-Seagull group on Flickr, the photo-sharing website (see: http://www.flickr.com/groups/british-seagull/).
Members and their Seagull-related photographs are invited.
Surely it can be only a matter of time before Seagull imagery becomes more prevalent than pornography on the Internet....