William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner is the father of Will Turner. He left his family behind to make his fortune at sea, but never told them he was going to go about it as a pirate. Bill become a crewman of the Black Pearl, until after Captain Jack Sparrow was marooned on Rumrunner's Isle. Expressing his feelings about the incident to new captain Hector Barbossa, Bill found himself being ejected overboard. Barbossa strapped Bill to a cannon by his bootstraps and dropped it off the deck and into the depths. But, Turner didn't die.