The Flare That Wasn't Fired - Nine Days Nobody Expected
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The Flare That Wasn't Fired - Nine Days Nobody Expected
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A man drifted for nine days in thirty-eight-degree Pacific water after the search had already been suspended; a flare washed ashore with its cap still on, never fired. How did a missing notepad and seven feet of arithmetic turn a routine plan into a near-miss rescue?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence reconstructed from Coast Guard records, physical evidence recovered by dive teams, and the accounts of people involved to trace where the communication gap opened and why Dixon’s written change of course never reached search planners. Could one small note on a kitchen counter and a single measurement explain how the search missed him?
Person: Steven Dixon
Date: November 4-9, 2011
Location: Oregon coast, from Tilmore Inlet to Welden Bay
Event: Nine-day drift and rescue after search suspension
Status: Rescued from water by container ship after search called off
- Dixon left Belker Marina at 1:30 PM on November 4 for a roughly 90-mile trip to Welden Bay.
- The filed navigation plan put the Crestline three miles offshore; the notepad noted an intention to cut 1.5 miles closer to shore.
- The EPIRB signal was strong for about 40 minutes around midnight, then degraded to nothing.
- A life ring from the Crestline was photographed by a fishing vessel 30 miles south of the original search zone on November 6.
- Dixon was pulled from 38-degree water by a container ship four days after the search was called off and had lost 22 pounds and suffered first-degree frostbite on three fingers.
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