Lost by a Chip: How a Corrupt GPS Sent Him Past Three Islands
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Lost by a Chip: How a Corrupt GPS Sent Him Past Three Islands
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A small corruption in a GPS memory chip sent an EPIRB broadcasting the wrong coordinates - thirty-one miles off - and turned a routine rescue into a six-day search in the wrong place. The man who survived was a 52-year-old civil engineer who abandoned his sinking 41-foot sloop, drifted past three islands, and walked ashore dehydrated with a pressed wildflower in his logbook; how did a tiny data error overwhelm a seasoned navigator and evade detection for so long?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to rescue, following the boat Celia Ann, the failing diesel, the activated EPIRB, and the search effort that ultimately found Russell Hayes on Drum Key. What exactly in the GPS memory corrupted the beacon’s position, and why did it send rescuers thirty-one miles in the wrong direction?
Person: Russell Hayes
Date: June 11, 2017
Location: Drum Key, Georgia (found)
Vessel: Celia Ann, 41-foot 1986 Pacific Seacraft sloop
Error distance: 31 miles
- Russell Hayes left Burnside Island on June 8, 2017 at 07:15 heading southeast.
- The boat’s mast was lost in a jibe before 02:00 on June 11; by 14:20 the diesel engine failed.
- The EPIRB activated at 14:35 on June 11 but transmitted a position off by 31 miles.
- Hayes had lost 19 pounds and had two infected lacerations on his left palm when found.
- He had pressed a stem of Queen Anne’s lace between pages 31 and 32 of his spiral logbook before departure.
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