The Paperback Mirror That Caught a Plane and Saved Him
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The Paperback Mirror That Caught a Plane and Saved Him
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A single flash of reflected light ended seventeen days adrift and saved a man who had watched his boat sink; that flash came from a mirror the size of a paperback cover tied to a survival vest. How did a tiny engraved mirror, not the EPIRB or flares, become the decisive signal that led a Cessna 208 to him?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from a routine Brunswick-to-Freeport run to the moment a charter pilot saw a flash over the Atlantic, and we trace how one deliberate decision-keeping a small mirror and using it-became the central factor in a rescue. What choices and small preparations mattered most in those seventeen days?
Person: Jerry Porter
Date: January 30, 2016 (mast loss) / February 10, 2016 (plane sighting)
Location: 80 nautical miles southeast of Cape Canaveral
Equipment: EPIRB, handheld VHF (4-day battery), 6 Orion aerial flares, signal mirror
Vessel: 27-foot sloop named Corda Blue
- The mast came down at 11:42 AM on January 30 while Jerry was 80 nautical miles southeast of Cape Canaveral.
- The EPIRB transmitted and was received by COSPAS-SARSAT within minutes, but the computed position was 40 nautical miles northeast of Jerry’s actual location.
- Jerry had three weeks of food and two weeks of water packed when he left Savannah on January 24, 2016.
- He carried six aerial flares and a signal mirror clipped to his survival vest with parachute cord; the last flare burned out before the mirror was still in his hand on day four after that.
- A Cessna 208 charter flew over the Atlantic at 8,400 feet on the morning of February 10, 2016, and saw the flash from the mirror that led to the rescue.
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