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Life Ring Ashore: How Calliope's Grace Vanished Offshore

Life Ring Ashore: How Calliope's Grace Vanished Offshore

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Life Ring Ashore: How Calliope's Grace Vanished Offshore

The first image is a thirty-inch white fiberglass life ring standing upright between red cedar roots, four miles from the nearest navigable water - dry and still with CALLIOPE'S GRACE printed on it. How did a ring from a boat that ended up on the ocean floor travel sixty-one miles in the wrong direction and leave two survivors, one fatality, and a search that started in the wrong place?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of decisions, currents, and failed forecasts that led from a planned Bermuda passage to a three-week search that began two hundred and twenty miles from where the survivors actually were. How did a textbook seamanship call to heave-to and deploy a sea anchor shift everything, and what did one life ring reveal that search planners missed?

Person: Monica Parker
Person: Walt Gibbs
Person: Iris Tong
Date: May 7-9, 2019
Location: Morehead City, North Carolina

- The life ring measured thirty inches across and read CALLIOPE'S GRACE in black letters.
- The crew departed Morehead City on the morning of May 7, 2019 for a 1,060 nautical mile passage to Bermuda.
- Monica Parker, age 24, owned forty percent of the 38-foot sloop Calliope's Grace; Walt Gibbs owned sixty percent.
- While heaved-to and anchored for eighteen hours, the vessel was carried sixty-one miles southwest by a cold current running 2.5-3 knots.
- Susan Bennett’s initial search datum placed the mathematical center 220 miles east-southeast of Morehead City based on the filed float plan.

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