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Boot on the Spit: How a Missing Crabber Survived Against Odds

Boot on the Spit: How a Missing Crabber Survived Against Odds

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Boot on the Spit: How a Missing Crabber Survived Against Odds

Fear and tension at sea: a single orange boot, size seven, upright forty-one feet from the waterline, and a commercial catch log naming the 42-foot crabber Delmar Rose - but no boat, no crew, and five days of silence. How did a captain with 27 years of experience and a dwindling radio battery keep her crew alive when rescue teams were searching the wrong direction?

In this episode, we tell what happened from the moment the Delmar Rose left Coos Harbor on July 8 through the failed rescue attempts and the improvised survival choices that followed, asking how routine checks, a recalled EPIRB, and a drifting search buoy combined to turn a routine trip into a fight for life.

Person: Cynthia Lawson
Vessel: Delmar Rose
Date departed: July 8
Distance offshore: roughly 60 miles
Search uncertainty: EPIRB position error 11 miles

- An orange rubber boot, size seven, was found standing upright 41 feet from the waterline with a waterproof sleeve containing a commercial catch log.
- The Delmar Rose was a 42-foot fiberglass crabber registered out of Coos Harbor and captained by Cynthia Lawson, age 53.
- The crew of four departed pre-dawn on July 8 for the Heceta grounds with a planned return by the evening of July 10.
- At 4:17 AM on July 9 a wave knocked the EPIRB off its bracket and it transmitted with a position uncertainty of 11 miles due to a recalled antenna fault.
- Seas built to 18 feet while the search concentrated north; a sensor buoy had drifted off-station causing the drift model to underweight a southward current reversal.

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