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  • She Spoke to Sharks: 22 Days Adrift, a Voice Recorder Survived

    She Spoke to Sharks: 22 Days Adrift, a Voice Recorder Survived
    2026/07/26
    She Spoke to Sharks: 22 Days Adrift, a Voice Recorder Survived

    A 53-year-old sailor spent 22 days alone in a life raft after her 31-foot cutter sank; a digital voice recorder captured her voice every hour and recorded her speaking to sharks. How did an EPIRB error send rescuers to the wrong ocean while she drifted 87 nautical miles from the reported coordinates?

    In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from departure to rescue, what Cheryl Barnes carried and lost, and the daily recordings she made - including her naming of two sharks as Index and Reference - as she tracked her true position and survival choices. What did the voice recorder reveal about those 22 days adrift?

    Person: Cheryl Barnes
    Age: 53
    Boat: Ledger Line, 31-foot fiberglass cutter built in 1984
    Distance from land at sinking: approximately 91 miles
    EPIRB offset: 87 nautical miles northeast from Barnes’s actual drift

    - Departure date: October 8, 2019, from Carrabelle bound for Clearwater (220 nautical miles)
    - Collision and abandonment: October 10, 2019; 12 minutes from impact to leaving the boat
    - Drift measured by day four: roughly 31 miles south-southeast from the sinking location
    - Rescue discovery: life raft seen by shrimper Steve Norris at 2:00 a.m. on October 31, 2019, fifty-five miles southwest of Apalachicola
    - Recorded survival kit: four-person life raft, EPIRB, handheld VHF, handheld GPS, compass, raft kit with water packets (three extra water packets were in a dry bag)

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    22 分
  • Alone with a Broken Boat: The 37 Days Sharon Survived at Sea

    Alone with a Broken Boat: The 37 Days Sharon Survived at Sea
    2026/07/25
    Alone with a Broken Boat: The 37 Days Sharon Survived at Sea

    A forty-two-foot sloop lost its mast to a 22-26 foot wave and two of three people aboard did not come home - but one science teacher walked off the boat after 41 days alone, asking for her daughter before water. How did a cracked EPIRB, a kitchen-foil radar reflector and a dry suit that changed hands the night before a death shape survival two hundred miles offshore?

    In this episode, we tell what happened aboard the Carver Point from departure to the storm, the failed distress signal, and the weeks that followed, following Sharon Riley’s journal and the subsequent case records to answer how she stayed alive.

    Person: Sharon Riley
    Person: Dennis Craft
    Person: Kevin Sorrell
    Vessel: Carver Point (42-foot cutter sloop, built 1989)
    Event: Dismasting on night of September 7-8 with a 22-26 foot wave

    - Departure date: September 3 from Fernandina Beach
    - Storm impact: between midnight and 0200 on September 8
    - Sharon’s journal entry time and date: 03:40 on September 14, wrote “Dennis gone at 0340. Kevin and I committed him to the sea.”
    - Sharon’s age and occupation: 45, eighth-grade science teacher from Savannah
    - Dennis’s age and sailing record: 51, had crossed to the Bahamas four times and delivered a vessel to Bermuda once

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    23 分
  • Shoe Nailed to Buoy Seven: How a Mother Vanished After the Sea

    Shoe Nailed to Buoy Seven: How a Mother Vanished After the Sea
    2026/07/24
    Shoe Nailed to Buoy Seven: How a Mother Vanished After the Sea

    The image is simple and strange: a size four white canvas sneaker, laces fused by brine, nailed with a galvanized roofing nail to Buoy Seven - carried seventy miles across open water after a ketch capsized. Who walked ashore alive around August 8 and left the only proof of her landing pinned to a federal navigation marker, then vanished without trace?

    In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from departure to aftermath, describing the people aboard Maren Rose, the storm that capsized her, the search activated by an EPIRB, and the one physical clue recovered weeks later - and ask what that clue might mean.

    Person: Sandra Crews
    Person: Sophie Crews
    Person: Paula Collins
    Event: Capsize of Maren Rose on August 5, 2011
    Location: Buoy Seven (shoe found) - discovered by Frank Slater on August 19, 2011

    - The shoe was a size four white canvas sneaker with the sole cracked and laces fused by brine.
    - A single galvanized roofing nail was driven through the toe box to hold the shoe to the steel buoy.
    - Buoy Seven was confirmed clean six weeks earlier in Coast Guard records, with no shoe or nail.
    - Maren Rose capsized at 00:17 on August 5, 2011 after winds rose from 12 to 41 knots in under four minutes.
    - The EPIRB signal reached COSPAS-SARSAT at 00:49 and was relayed within 11 minutes, but an EPIRB encoding drift and a six-minute activation delay produced a position error that sent rescue assets 22 nautical miles off the actual sinking location.

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    23 分
  • Beacon Blinked, System Said No - She Drifted Four Days Alone

    Beacon Blinked, System Said No - She Drifted Four Days Alone
    2026/07/23
    Beacon Blinked, System Said No - She Drifted Four Days Alone

    The thought of a working emergency beacon that was received and dismissed chills the spine: an EPIRB transmitted correctly for four days and nine hours, the national system logged the signal and decided no search was needed. How did a functioning distress beacon tied to a solo sailor drift unheard of while a cutter, an aircraft, and two paper trails converged without finding her?

    In this episode, we follow the chain of events from a grader operator finding a blinking orange EPIRB in a county ditch to the federal database records that misidentified its owner, and we ask how an administrative error became a life-or-death gap in the search system.

    Person: Peggy Harris
    Vessel: Linnet
    Date: July 9-14, 2019
    Location: Gulf of Mexico / Portsmith, Florida
    Equipment: EPIRB (registered to Victor Crane in NOAA database)

    - The EPIRB activated at 23:57 on July 11, 2019, seventeen minutes after Linnet’s mast came down.
    - Peggy departed Portsmith marina at 06:48 on July 9, 2019, with provisions for ten days including twelve liters of bottled water and a watermaker.
    - The NOAA registry had a data-migration error from spring 2018 that left the beacon registered to Victor Crane and Osprey Bay.
    - Nancy Adams found the orange EPIRB blinking at 04:17 on July 14, 2019, on County Road Seven in Dellard County, 31 miles inland from the nearest coastline.
    - The coast guard received the beacon’s signal identifying Osprey Bay in its slip at Palafox Pier, leading to the classification of the alert as a false alarm.

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    19 分
  • She Survived Six Days Adrift - How the Sea Led Her Home

    She Survived Six Days Adrift - How the Sea Led Her Home
    2026/07/22
    She Survived Six Days Adrift - How the Sea Led Her Home

    The ocean should have been a grave; instead it became Julie Vickers’s unlikely path back to land - she spent six days clinging to a four-foot fiberglass panel after her thirty-eight-foot sloop capsized and the EPIRB sent only one weak pulse. Drift models, Coast Guard search grids and every deployed asset pointed forty miles north, while Julie crawled ashore at Otter Inlet where nobody was looking; how did childhood scents and a lifetime of reading the water guide her to that exact beach?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the June 15-22, 2009 voyage: the weather that turned, the capsize in 12-foot seas, the failed EPIRB signal, and the small decisions and habits that kept Julie alive - and we ask what this case reveals about the limits of search systems and the power of local knowledge.

    Person: Julie Vickers
    Date: June 15-22, 2009
    Location: Otter Inlet, Oregon coast
    Vessel: 38-foot sloop named Tern's Wake
    Cause: Mast sheared, EPIRB antenna cracked (one weak logged pulse)

    - At 2:40 AM on June 16 the first rogue wave capsized the sloop and the mast was sheared at the deck.
    - The EPIRB logged a single weak position approximately 39 miles west-southwest of Tillamook Bay before failing.
    - Julie survived six days afloat on a 4 ft by 2.5 ft fiberglass panel after the vessel sank by noon on June 16.
    - She had two life vests, a handheld VHF radio at 40% battery, three liters of water, trail mix, crackers, and a sealed chart case on a lanyard.
    - On the morning of June 22 at 6:41 AM, a utility lineman found her alive on a gravel beach at Otter Inlet still gripping the fiberglass panel.

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    22 分
  • She Threw a Cake Base Into the Gulf - Day Six, JLP

    She Threw a Cake Base Into the Gulf - Day Six, JLP
    2026/07/21
    She Threw a Cake Base Into the Gulf - Day Six, JLP

    A foam cake base with coordinates, a hand-drawn chart, and the three calm words "Day six. South. JLP." washed ashore in Gulfport - but four days earlier a woman named Janet Lynn Lynn was found alive on the roof of a half-sunken sailboat, waving a yellow jacket at an aircraft that nearly missed her. How did a discarded cake disc become the hinge between a wrong search box and a rescue that almost never happened?

    In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from Janet Lynn leaving Gulfport on May 9 to the storm, the EPIRB activation, the mislocated search area, and the cake base that turned up on May 19 - and the question that drove every decision: how did a 22-mile route deviation change everything?

    Person: Janet Lynn Lynn
    Date: May 9-19 (May 9 departure; May 10 storm; May 19 foam found)
    Location: Gulfport, Mississippi and offshore Gulf of Mexico
    Vessel: 32-foot sloop named Ardent Fix
    Supply: 4 gallons of water and 8 days of food

    - Janet Lynn left Gulfport alone on the afternoon of May 9 planning an east-southeast route roughly 90 miles to Pensacola.
    - She deviated 22 miles south of her filed course to avoid an offshore platform with inadequate lighting.
    - At about 5:30 AM on May 10 the Ardent Fix broached and capsized to starboard; Janet activated her EPIRB at 6:22 AM.
    - The EPIRB signal reached satellites and triggered a search, but coordinators drew a search box based on her filed route that was approximately 60 miles north of her actual position.
    - A white foam cake base marked in red with coordinates and the words "Day six. South. JLP." washed up at Gulfport beach access at 6:15 AM on May 19.

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    20 分
  • Left the Stove On: How a Beacon Whispered for Four Days

    Left the Stove On: How a Beacon Whispered for Four Days
    2026/07/21
    Left the Stove On: How a Beacon Whispered for Four Days

    The idea of a lone beacon sending signals for four days while its owner drifted alone in the Atlantic is terrifyingly intimate: two fried eggs left on a skillet, an autopilot-engaged sloop idling at eight knots, and a personal locator beacon transmitting into a system that wasn't listening - how did a 61-year-old woman survive when rescue was almost missed? What chain of failures and precise near-misses allowed Emily Duncan to float for days before being found?

    In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to rescue, following the boat, the beacon transmissions, and the decisions that led Emily to sail east instead of the filed route - and we ask how a safety system built to find her almost failed when it mattered most.

    Person: Emily Duncan
    Date: April 12, 2019
    Vessel: Patrice C., 42-foot sloop
    Fuel: 220 gallons filled April 10
    Injury: fractured right forearm (radius and ulna)

    - The boat was idling with autopilot engaged and engine running at eight knots when officers boarded.
    - Two fried eggs were found on a cast-iron skillet, their yolks not yet set, after more than 24 hours.
    - Emily activated her personal locator beacon underwater to the wrist after falling overboard in 58°F water.
    - The squall produced 38-knot northwest winds that caused Emily to be clipped to her safety line and fall overboard.
    - Marcus Teel filled both tanks with 220 gallons on April 10 and saw navigation lights leave the harbor before dawn on April 11.

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    21 分
  • The Dry Card on a Soggy Boat: How Three Calls Were Missed at Sea

    The Dry Card on a Soggy Boat: How Three Calls Were Missed at Sea
    2026/07/21
    The Dry Card on a Soggy Boat: How Three Calls Were Missed at Sea

    A single laminated card, bone-dry on the soaking deck of a boat that looked like it had been underwater for days - that impossibility led to a woman being found alive after nearly four days adrift. How could three people, all sending distress signals and searching for each other after a squall, remain invisible across the same stretch of water?

    In this episode, we follow the timeline from a March squall to the discovery on a Buras dock and trace the decisions and small artifacts that shaped what happened. What did a laminated tracking card, a ripped radio transmission, and six bottles of water add up to in those crucial hours?

    Date: March 22, 2017
    Person: Kimberly Green
    Location: Buras dock / lower Mississippi delta
    Boat: Calvert Sound (14-foot fiberglass, 30-horsepower)
    Event: Squall on March 18, 2017 (40-48 knots, 22 minutes)

    - Kimberly Green was found unconscious in the bow on March 22, 2017 after being alone for almost four days.
    - The laminated tracking card covered March 4-April 2 with the first 18 cells filled in blue ink and was kept inside a waterproof sleeve.
    - The squall hit at 11:53 AM on March 18, 2017 with winds of 40-48 knots and lasted 22 minutes, ending visual contact between Calvert Sound and Lena B.
    - Kimberly had six bottles of water and half a bag of popcorn and rationed them while circling within roughly two miles of her last visual contact.
    - She heard a garbled, partial rescue-channel transmission the afternoon of March 18 and believed it indicated Scott and Marcus were being helped.

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    23 分