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  • Dry Card, Drifting Woman: How She Navigated Nine Days Alone

    Dry Card, Drifting Woman: How She Navigated Nine Days Alone
    Aug 20 2026
    Dry Card, Drifting Woman: How She Navigated Nine Days Alone

    The first thing found at a marina storage yard was a bone-dry laminated card with twelve handwritten lines and a final note: "Day nine." A rescue spent nine days searching the wrong ocean while that card-flown three hundred yards across marsh-held the only written trail of a woman’s solo navigation; how did she survive and steer herself home without compass, GPS, or charts?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of events, witness reports, and the instruments and calculations that made an improbable return possible, and we ask what the card and the small tools she used reveal about her decisions and skills.

    Person: Connie Casey
    Date: January 7-19, 2011
    Location: Gulf coast of Florida (departure Fort Myers Beach; 160 nautical miles west-southwest of Key West at incident)
    Event: Nine-day solo navigation and search-and-rescue mismatch
    Instrument: stainless steel winch base used as navigation aid

    - The laminated index card had twelve handwritten lines with times and compass headings and a final entry marked "Day nine."
    - The card landed dry three hundred yards across open marsh inside a fenced storage yard and sat there for three days.
    - The rescue beacon directed searchers twenty-two nautical miles away from where the woman actually was.
    - The Hazel M. was a forty-four-foot sloop; she and a 26-year-old crewman left Fort Myers Beach on January 7, 2011.
    - On January 10, 2011, a sudden asymmetric swell (rogue wave) struck when the vessel was 160 nautical miles west-southwest of Key West.

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    23 min
  • The Green Notebook: Nine Days Adrift, One Sentence Left Behind

    The Green Notebook: Nine Days Adrift, One Sentence Left Behind
    Aug 19 2026
    The Green Notebook: Nine Days Adrift, One Sentence Left Behind

    Find the dry green notebook, a single line written - "Day one. Mast gone. I am alive." - then 96 blank pages: how does a complete nine-day survival log vanish while the owner is recovered alive six miles offshore? What happened to the missing entries and who found the notebook upright in a tidal mud flat?

    In this episode, we follow the chain from discovery to rescue: a birdwatcher finds the notebook at Galvez Inlet, it is logged into evidence, and a search-and-rescue coordinator reads that lone sentence and understands its link to a man recovered after nine days adrift. How did a seasoned sailor keep a spoken dead-reckoning log for nine days while the physical pages remained blank?

    Person: Russell Moore
    Location: Galvez Inlet, Florida
    Date: December 6-19 (departure December 7; discovery December 19)
    Event: Nine days adrift after mast failure and life raft deployment
    Status: Notebook logged into evidence and linked to rescued survivor

    - The notebook was found at 7:52 AM on December 19 by birdwatcher Cynthia Snyder on a mud flat at Galvez Inlet.
    - The first line written in the green spiral notebook reads: "Day one. Mast gone. I am alive." and the following 96 pages were blank.
    - The notebook was logged into evidence by noon on the day it was found and routed to the Tampa Search and Rescue office by early afternoon.
    - Russell Moore, age 63, departed Osprey marina at 6:00 AM on December 7 aboard the 31-foot Catalina sloop Lena Marie.
    - The life raft was deployed at approximately 4:15 AM on December 9 after the lower shroud chainplate failed and the mast came down; Russell had six energy bars and four liters of water.

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    21 min
  • The Notebook That Saved Seven: How a Lost Log Found the Survivors

    The Notebook That Saved Seven: How a Lost Log Found the Survivors
    Aug 18 2026
    The Notebook That Saved Seven: How a Lost Log Found the Survivors

    The morning a paperboy found a waterlogged composition notebook stamped MV Mireille Voss, seven people were clinging to life in a lifeboat with a VHF radio that transmitted no farther than two miles. Search aircraft had been looking in the wrong place for thirty-six hours, and a cargo tag zip-tied to a ruined notebook would change everything-how did one soaked notebook become the only way their calls were heard?

    In this episode, we follow the recovered notebook and the crew entries that redirected a failing rescue, tracking what was written, who survived the launch, and why routine checks missed a bent antenna that crippled the lifeboat radio. Could a paper log and a paperboy beat forty-eight hours of missed alarms?

    Person: Glenn Campbell
    Date: November 14 (discovery), collision evening November 8
    Location: Perdido Bay (notebook found); Gulf of Mexico (incident)
    Vessel: MV Mireille Voss, 412-foot chemical tanker
    Status: Seven survivors in lifeboat; two officers deceased, some bodies not recovered

    - Glenn Campbell found the notebook at 5:30 AM on November 14 while on a four-mile paper route with fourteen stops.
    - The MV Mireille Voss departed Pascagoula on the evening of November 8 with an estimated arrival of November 12 and never arrived.
    - The ship carried twenty-one crew; seven launched in a rigid enclosed lifeboat built for ten with rations for three days.
    - Roy Pruitt estimated the VHF radio battery at 60% but the antenna connector bent on launch, reducing range from ~20 miles to ~2 miles.
    - The notebook reached the Perdido Bay sheriff's substation at 6:15 AM and was on a senior rescue coordinator’s screen in New Orleans by 8:00 AM.

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    23 min
  • Forty Miles Missing: The Bottle That Proved They Were Alive

    Forty Miles Missing: The Bottle That Proved They Were Alive
    Aug 17 2026
    Forty Miles Missing: The Bottle That Proved They Were Alive

    A single glass bottle washed ashore in Harwick, Maine with a dry, folded note inside that read "We are still here. The boat is sound." The bottle was launched before a Coast Guard rescue and proved the occupants were alive-so why had search teams missed them by forty miles?

    In this episode, we tell how a 34-foot sloop's distress call showed accurate instruments and clear numbers that were nonetheless wrong by forty miles, how a watermaker failure and a severed antenna turned the chartplotter into a lie, and how a laminated parts list and one last act of faith in a bottle kept hope alive. How did a cached GPS position and a drifting current combine to turn a routine rescue into a months-long mystery?

    Person: Kelly McCarthy
    Person: Chris Nolan
    Date: October 7, 2017
    Boat: 34-foot Tartan sloop named Tern
    Search area: more than 4,000 nautical square miles

    - The distress call was transmitted at 02:17 on October 7, 2017 with coordinates showing 43°22′N, 66°08′W.
    - The chartplotter displayed a cached position from two hours before the storm after the antenna connection was partially severed.
    - The Coast Guard searched over 4,000 nautical square miles based on the transmitted coordinates and found nothing.
    - The Tern drifted southwest through the storm at roughly half a knot and ended up about forty miles from the plotted position.
    - On November 14, 2017 a snowplow operator found a glass bottle in a roadside ditch containing a dry note stating "We are still here. The boat is sound."

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    17 min
  • She Gave Her PFD - The Chain, The Card, The Lost Man

    She Gave Her PFD - The Chain, The Card, The Lost Man
    Aug 16 2026
    She Gave Her PFD - The Chain, The Card, The Lost Man

    The moment Wayne Underwood found thirty feet of galvanized anchor chain coiled on Creel's Landing and a laminated dive certification card threaded through its last three links, the calm of Tallow Creek hid a larger, darker story: three sailors left the Brunswick dock on September 1, 2017; one never returned, two drifted at sea for eight days - how did a habit of wearing a dive card become the clue that changed everything?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from departure to rescue, tracing the equipment failures, decisions, and small habits that shaped the outcome; what chain of small failures sent three people into the Atlantic, and what did the laminated card finally reveal?

    Date: September 1-9, 2017
    Location: Brunswick, Georgia to offshore northeast of the Florida-Georgia line
    Vessel: Ariel Dawn, 42-foot catamaran
    People: Marie Brown (32), Douglas Frett (50), Kevin Tully (46)
    Equipment: four-person life raft (inflated to ~1/3), EPIRB activated, handheld VHF

    - At 6:40 AM on September 9, Wayne Underwood found a 30-foot galvanized anchor chain coiled on the dock with Marie Brown’s laminated dive certification card threaded through the final three links.
    - The Ariel Dawn departed Brunswick on the afternoon of September 1 and was making way in a 15-knot southeast breeze by nightfall on September 2.
    - A diesel fuel-return-line fitting had been improperly torqued for years, allowing a fine diesel mist to land on a hot exhaust riser and ignite on the night of September 2.
    - The life raft canister’s CO2 cartridge carried an inspection stamp dated four years earlier; the raft inflated to roughly one-third capacity and proved insufficient as a full platform.
    - The anchor attachment burned through at approximately 2:00 AM on September 3; the hull went down but the chain remained, which the three people held onto as the boat burned.

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    20 min
  • The Notebook That Survived Eleven Days Adrift-And Told The Truth

    The Notebook That Survived Eleven Days Adrift-And Told The Truth
    Aug 15 2026
    The Notebook That Survived Eleven Days Adrift-And Told The Truth

    Saltwater should have destroyed a spiral-bound recipe notebook within minutes, but after eleven days adrift it remained legible enough to become the clearest record of what happened to a missing sailor. A disabled sailboat, a failed emergency beacon, and one woman’s habit of tucking a notebook into her oilskin jacket set up a stubborn mystery: how did that little book survive, and what does it reveal about the lost eleven days?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from Pamela Hunter leaving Pellet Cove on August 2, 2019 to the moment her passage became a search, and ask how a routine sail turned into a fight for survival and a notebook became the only witness.

    Person: Pamela Hunter
    Date: August 2, 2019
    Location: Pellet Cove, Mississippi to Apalachicola, Florida
    Vessel: Audrey Jean
    Item that survived: Spiral-bound recipe notebook with plastic cover

    - Pamela untied the Audrey Jean at 6:15 AM on August 2, 2019 and planned a roughly 230-mile passage to Apalachicola.
    - Pamela had 43 years of sailing experience and filed a float plan with harbormaster Vic Pressler before departure.
    - Approximately 36 hours into the passage, a convective squall line struck about 60 miles south-southeast of the Mississippi barrier islands, lasting less than 20 minutes.
    - The mast fell to starboard, punching a hole in the deck and sending the EPIRB, VHF antenna, GPS, and satellite phone into the water.
    - Pamela worked for 90 minutes in near-total darkness with failing flashlight batteries to saw through rigging, salvaging a ship's log, a handheld compass, an emergency bag with 4 liters of water, crackers, and the recipe notebook.

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    19 min
  • Una mujer que la búsqueda abandonó por muerta llegó antes que su barco

    Una mujer que la búsqueda abandonó por muerta llegó antes que su barco
    Aug 14 2026
    Una mujer que la búsqueda abandonó por muerta llegó antes que su barco

    Fear and stubborn hope collide: a woman declared lost at sea survived eleven days alone in the Gulf of Mexico and was found with a dry Sonoran desert scorpion sealed in a mason jar aboard her soaked boat - how did she live without instruments, water supplies, or rescue? What led a desert memory to be the key to understanding her survival?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from departure to discovery, recounting the equipment she carried, the wind event that threw her overboard, and the moment a dockhand found a boat that “should not have been there”; will the details of her preparation and the strange jar explain how she navigated and endured?

    Person: Rhonda Porter
    Date: July 8, 2017 (man overboard) and July 19, 2017 (boat found)
    Location: Gulf of Mexico; boat recovered at Pelican Cove Marina
    Vessel: Perseverance
    Item: mason jar containing a bark scorpion from Sonoran Desert

    - Rhonda cast off from Gulfport at 6:50 PM on July 7, 2017, bound for Tampa with an estimated three-day trip.
    - At 12:31 AM on July 8, 2017, a boom swung unexpectedly, striking her and throwing her overboard 80 nautical miles offshore in 300 feet of water.
    - She surfaced within seconds wearing an offshore jacket with an inflatable harness that she manually inflated; it was not clipped to the jackline.
    - Clipped to her body were a rigging knife, a partially full one-liter water bottle, and two chemical light sticks she used for 40 minutes.
    - On July 19, 2017, Frank Carter found Perseverance at Pelican Cove Marina soaked through but with a sealed mason jar in the bow cleat containing a completely dry bark scorpion.

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    19 min
  • She Survived 11 Days - But the Raft Told a Different Story

    She Survived 11 Days - But the Raft Told a Different Story
    Aug 13 2026
    She Survived 11 Days - But the Raft Told a Different Story

    Cold, precise routine met an impossible gap: a marine biologist with a graduate degree, a dry spiral-bound notebook found inside an otherwise weathered life raft, and eleven days during which search teams looked the wrong way. How did a woman who logged every detail and carried a personal locator beacon end up drifting mostly visible and mostly within reach while rescue systems failed to connect the dots?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to discovery: who Megan Dixon was, what equipment she carried, how Vera struck a submerged shipping container, and what the rescue teams found on Pelican Cay and the western beach forty minutes apart. Why did the life raft’s notebook stay bone dry and what does that silence in the evidence really mean?

    Person: Megan Dixon
    Age: 29
    Vessel: 31-foot sloop named Vera
    Departure: June 1, 2019 at 06:47
    Discovery: June 9, 2019 at 06:15 by Tom Reyes on Pelican Cay

    - Megan Dixon held a graduate degree in marine biology from the University of Florida and worked on seagrass recovery near Naples for four years.
    - She filed a float plan with harbormaster Pete Vance on the morning of June 1, 2019 listing destination Cayo Redondo and departed at 06:47.
    - Vera struck a submerged shipping container northeast of Cayo Redondo on the evening of June 2, 2019, with roughly forty minutes elapsing before the sloop sank.
    - The life raft was found on the western beach with canopy up, painter line coiled, and a college-ruled spiral-bound notebook tucked under the canopy frame that remained bone dry.
    - Tom Reyes found Megan conscious on the south beach of Pelican Cay at 06:15 on June 9, 2019, and a marine patrol officer later noted the notebook before noticing dried blood and the raft’s registration number.

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    20 min