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Shipwreck Stories

Shipwreck Stories

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Wreckage, survival and the hush of the sea: Shipwreck Stories brings the human edge of maritime disaster into sharp, unflinching focus.

Each episode reconstructs real castaway experiences, lost vessels and the choices that separate rescue from oblivion.

You’ll hear vivid scene-setting, firsthand accounts where available, and clear explanations of navigation, weather and survival techniques that shaped each outcome.

This is not a textbook about ships; it’s a collection of human dramas set against reefs, storms and open ocean, told with respect for the victims and curiosity about the forces at play.

New episodes arrive every day — Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday — at 7:00 PM, with compact narrative episodes that run long enough to immerse you but short enough to fit into your evening.

Ideal for listeners who crave precise maritime storytelling, practical survival insight, and the tension of true nautical mysteries without sensationalism.

If you want to understand how wrecks happen, how people survive, and what the sea conceals, Shipwreck Stories gives you a steady compass.

Subscribe now so you don’t miss a nightly dispatch from the water’s edge.© 2026 OBOMEDIA Creators 社会科学
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  • The Menu That Should Have Sunk: A Message for the Sea

    The Menu That Should Have Sunk: A Message for the Sea
    2026/09/10
    The Menu That Should Have Sunk: A Message for the Sea

    A laminated diner menu meant to sink instead washed ashore nine miles later, bone dry, with a brass shackle that slipped free and the name Linda Allen written on the back; how did a weighted message for the sea end up on a breakwater while its writer was already in a hospital bed? This episode centers on that impossible object and the narrow exits it left open to a small crew in a storm.

    In this episode, we tell how a routine Gulf passage became a fight for survival, tracing the Calder Blue’s departure from Harker’s Point, the unexpected deepening low that stalled over their track, and the menu that carried a deliberate, failed plan to leave a legible trace. What choices and failures turned a seventy-something crossing into eight days of consequence?

    Date: May 4-13 (events from departure May 4; menu found May 13)
    Location: Harker's Point and nine miles offshore
    Vessel: Calder Blue
    Person: Linda Allen
    Status: Three survivors; Linda hospitalized

    - The menu was found at 6:40 a.m. on May 13 wedged against the base of a piling and was bone dry despite nine miles of open water.
    - Linda Allen wrote “Linda Allen, vessel Calder Blue, departed Harker's Point May fourth” on the back of the menu and weighted it with a brass shackle to sink.
    - The Calder Blue departed Harker's Point on the morning of May 4 with four aboard: Linda Allen (26), Ed Novak (64), Carl Novak (29), and Pete Duvall (31).
    - The crew deployed a parachute drogue just after 2:00 a.m. on May 6 when seas were running 15 feet from the beam; the drogue bought them eleven minutes before a swivel fitting failed.
    - When the swivel failed the Calder Blue broached past 90 degrees, the electrical panel and radio took seawater and went dark, and Ed Novak went over the lifelines.

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  • She Survived - How a Drifting Sloop Nearly Buried Her Alive

    She Survived - How a Drifting Sloop Nearly Buried Her Alive
    2026/09/09
    She Survived - How a Drifting Sloop Nearly Buried Her Alive

    Heat, tide and an engine that never stopped turned a day trip into a life-or-death drift: a thirty-two-foot sloop was found 63 nautical miles offshore with its engine running and a half-eaten bowl of chili on the table - how did the owner end up submerged in a marsh tracking a helicopter by wristwatch, and how close did every small choice come to killing her?

    In this episode, we follow the sequence of facts from a marina checkout at 07:14 on April 8, 2014 to a discovery the next morning that left searchers puzzling over running engines, bent life-ring pins, and a warm bowl of chili; what really unfolded between grounding on a sandbar at low tide and the sloop’s unexpected offshore drift?

    Person: Shannon Watson
    Date: April 8-9, 2014
    Location: South Brunswick River marina to 63 nautical miles offshore
    Vessel: 32-foot sloop Caravel Moon
    Fuel: 41 gallons topped prior Saturday

    - The sloop left the marina at 07:14 on April 8, 2014 with a full diesel tank of 41 gallons.
    - Around 13:40 the sloop grounded on a sandbar two feet shallower than the two-season-old chart indicated.
    - Watson entered the water wearing her personal flotation device and grabbed a life ring whose bracket pin was later found bent.
    - At approximately 15:00 the tide turned, lifting the boat off the sandbar while its engine was still running and carrying it eastward.
    - A passerby reported the unmanned sloop the morning of April 9; Coast Guard teams found the vessel 63 nautical miles offshore with a half-eaten bowl of chili and a companionway hatch open.

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    20 分
  • The Notebook in the Church Lot: How the Gulf Betrayed Four Men

    The Notebook in the Church Lot: How the Gulf Betrayed Four Men
    2026/09/08
    The Notebook in the Church Lot: How the Gulf Betrayed Four Men

    Saltwater, diesel, and a man’s handwriting washed ashore eleven days after two boats vanished in a race - but the notebook was found sixty miles from where that name should have been, and it smelled like the Gulf itself. Four men went missing after a squall; the Coast Guard searched four nautical miles away because a GPS datum was wrong - how could a single unchecked number turn a routine race into ten days adrift?

    In this episode, you will hear the unfolding details of what happened from departure to discovery, the weather changes, the search decisions, and the notes left behind on a life raft - all pointing to one unanswered administrative error that redirected the search. Did an overlooked GPS setting doom the search before it began?

    Date: March 19, 2014
    Location: Palmetto Avenue, Sarasota
    Event: Whitmore Cup race, March 7-8, 2014
    People: John Meyer, Hank Serrano, Phil Garner, Trevor Garner
    Error: GPS datum set incorrectly, shifting positions four nautical miles southeast

    - A waterlogged notebook was found leaning against a van tire in a church parking lot on Palmetto Avenue on March 19, 2014.
    - The notebook’s inside cover was labeled John Meyer and showed handwriting still legible after eleven days at sea.
    - Two boats went missing from the Whitmore Cup race on March 8, 2014; eleven boats had departed at 5:50 a.m, on March 7.
    - By 1:15 p.m. on March 8 the National Weather Service had upgraded conditions to a small-craft warning with winds at the Venice Inlet buoy reading 38 knots, gusting to 44.
    - The chase boat’s GPS unit was set to the wrong coordinate datum, causing every transmitted position to be four nautical miles southeast of the boats’ actual location.

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    18 分
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