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Shipwreck Stories

Shipwreck Stories

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Wreckage, survival and the hush of the sea: Shipwreck Stories brings the human edge of maritime disaster into sharp, unflinching focus.

Each episode reconstructs real castaway experiences, lost vessels and the choices that separate rescue from oblivion.

You’ll hear vivid scene-setting, firsthand accounts where available, and clear explanations of navigation, weather and survival techniques that shaped each outcome.

This is not a textbook about ships; it’s a collection of human dramas set against reefs, storms and open ocean, told with respect for the victims and curiosity about the forces at play.

New episodes arrive every day — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday — at 7:00 PM, with compact narrative episodes that run long enough to immerse you but short enough to fit into your evening.

Ideal for listeners who crave precise maritime storytelling, practical survival insight, and the tension of true nautical mysteries without sensationalism.

If you want to understand how wrecks happen, how people survive, and what the sea conceals, Shipwreck Stories gives you a steady compass.

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  • Monica Roberts, a Pacific Gas meter reader, photographed it before she touched it

    Monica Roberts, a Pacific Gas meter reader, photographed it before she touched it
    Aug 18 2026
    Monica Roberts, a Pacific Gas meter reader, photographed it before she touched it

    A laminated emergency card lay perfectly centered on a concrete utility pad four hundred yards from the ocean, dry and face up, its surface scratched with seven tally marks. Monica Roberts photographed the card before she touched it, and those seven marks became the only visible trace of a woman who had been missing at sea for six days. What did that seventh mark mean, and how did a private grief reroute a multi-day search?

    In this episode, we tell the story of Rhonda Allen, a fifty-two-year-old maritime surveyor who set sail on her thirty-six-foot sloop Patience and disappeared north instead of south. Her boat sank in a rogue wave and she survived six days on a cockpit hatch cover until a late change to the search grid brought a helicopter to her location.

    Person: Rhonda Allen
    Vessel: 36-foot sloop Patience
    Date of sinking: Night of June 5-6, 2011
    Location of rescue: ~40 nautical miles north of Calder Harbor near Point Harrow
    Duration adrift: Six days before rescue

    - Rhonda purchased fifty-one gallons of diesel on the Sunday before her departure and filled a tank that held fifty-two gallons.
    - She filed a float plan saying she was going south for a weekend passage but in fact headed north toward Point Harrow.
    - A rogue wave struck at approximately midnight and Patience sank in four to six minutes with the companionway open.
    - Rhonda surfaced clipped to her harness, clung to a flat fiberglass cockpit hatch, and exhausted her handheld VHF by day two.
    - The laminated card with seven deep tally marks washed inland and ended up dry on a utility pad four hundred yards from the water, photographed by Monica Roberts.

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    19 min
  • That is the contradiction at the center of this story

    That is the contradiction at the center of this story
    Aug 17 2026
    That is the contradiction at the center of this story

    A neon-yellow child’s sneaker, standing upright on the concrete lip of a Pelican Flat culvert, carried a laminated card zip-tied through its lace hole with two lines of marker: coordinates and the words STILL ALIVE. The shoe had drifted an estimated seven days and landed thirty miles up the coast, but when a volunteer read that plea, the woman who wrote it had been in a Savannah hospital for four days. How did a carefully planned last-ditch signal arrive after the rescue it aimed to prompt?

    In this episode, we follow Jean Wallace, a forty-four-year-old solo sailor aboard the 38-foot sloop Ardent, as her mast collapses in a May storm and a failed drogue sends her sixty-one miles from her EPIRB fix; we trace the Coast Guard search, the sister’s memory that shifted the grid, and the shoe that almost changed everything.

    Person: Jean Wallace
    Vessel: Ardent, 38-foot sloop
    Date of incident: May 3-15, 2011
    Location: 45 miles east-southeast of Georgia coast at EPIRB activation
    Duration adrift before rescue: 11 days from departure; rescued May 15

    - Jean activated her EPIRB at approximately 8:15 PM on May 5 after losing her mast in 51-knot winds.
    - The drogue bridle had chafed through before deployment causing the Ardent to drift 61 miles southwest of the EPIRB coordinates.
    - The Coast Guard search used the EPIRB fix and initially searched northeast and southeast of the beacon position.
    - Jean’s sister Barbara drove to Sector Charleston on May 13 and relayed Jean’s offhand comment about southwest post-storm currents.
    - A neon-yellow sneaker zip-tied to a laminated card reading STILL ALIVE washed ashore seven days later bearing coordinates 48 miles from Jean’s actual rescue location.

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    18 min
  • Nine thirty in the morning on April fourteenth, two thousand nineteen

    Nine thirty in the morning on April fourteenth, two thousand nineteen
    Aug 16 2026
    Nine thirty in the morning on April fourteenth, two thousand nineteen

    A warm bowl of tomato soup sat in the gimbaled holder of an unmanned thirty-two-foot sloop, warm enough that Coast Guard Petty Officer Travis Ogle pressed two fingers to the rim and noted "definitely above ambient." The inflatable suspender vest was gone from its hook, the engine idled, and the logbook showed a planned trip to Harkers Island - so why was the boat circling a quarter mile off Pelican Notch and its owner nowhere aboard?

    In this episode, we follow the search for Marilyn Fisher, a 28-year-old marine supply worker and meticulous sailor whose Cora Jean was found adrift; a sequence of fuel receipts, eyewitness direction of travel, and a drifting EPIRB forced rescuers to revise their search and ultimately find her alive after 31 hours adrift.

    Person: Marilyn Fisher
    Vessel: 32-foot sloop Cora Jean
    Date: April 13-15, 2019
    Location: Beaufort / Pelican Notch / south of Cape Lookout
    Duration adrift: 31 hours

    - Marilyn logged every trip and always wore an inflatable suspender vest when sailing alone.
    - On April 14 at about 9:30 AM the Coast Guard boarded the Cora Jean and found the engine idling and the companionway vest hook empty.
    - A bowl of tomato soup on the table registered "definitely above ambient" when pressed by Petty Officer Travis Ogle.
    - The EPIRB plotted a position four miles northeast of where fuel receipts and witness Pete Farraro indicated she had actually gone.
    - Rescuers found Marilyn alive at 11:22 AM on April 15 with a core temperature of 94.1°F lacerations and a bruised sternum still wearing the vest she had deliberately taken into the water.

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    18 min
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