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She Survived Thirteen Hours: The Card That Kept Her Alive

She Survived Thirteen Hours: The Card That Kept Her Alive

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She Survived Thirteen Hours: The Card That Kept Her Alive

The first thing Megan Berry found in the mud after two and a half inches of rain was a dry, laminated card with seven blue ballpoint stars and a note: "two forty-three degrees, hold it on your left shoulder, do not lose it." A woman named Teresa McCarthy spent thirteen hours and thirty-five minutes alone in the Gulf during a nighttime squall clutching that same card - how did handwriting on a scrap of laminate become the tether between life and survival?

In this episode, we tell the story of Teresa McCarthy from the night she went overboard to the morning she was brought ashore, following the weather, the decisions aboard the forty-two-foot sloop Carver's Rest, and the note that never got wet. What did Teresa write in the dark, and why did that card matter for her survival?

Person: Teresa McCarthy
Age: 24
Vessel: 42-foot sloop Carver's Rest
Duration in water: 13 hours and 35 minutes
Date of departure call to mother: July 18, 2017 at 6:03 PM

- The card Megan found had seven stars drawn in blue ballpoint pen and the handwritten note "two forty-three degrees, hold it on your left shoulder, do not lose it" signed T. McCarthy.
- Two and a half inches of rain had fallen over the previous 48 hours at the spot where the card was recovered, yet the card was completely dry and unsmeared.
- Teresa went over the port rail at approximately 1:00 AM on July 20, 2017 after a forced jibe during a squall; Nick Alvarez called MAYDAY at 1:47 AM on Channel 16.
- A rescue helicopter deposited a barely conscious Teresa at a Pensacola Beach boat ramp three days earlier, with severe dehydration and mild burns across her neck and both forearms, and she was still holding the card.
- The squall line that caught Carver's Rest was moving north-northeast at approximately 30 knots and had organized along a convergence zone that forecast models failed to resolve.

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