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The Dry Paper in the Lifeboat: How One Note Redirected Rescue

The Dry Paper in the Lifeboat: How One Note Redirected Rescue

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The Dry Paper in the Lifeboat: How One Note Redirected Rescue

The Gulf can turn routine into survival in hours: a sun-bleached lifeboat found at Pelican Flats contained a single dry yellow sheet after eleven days afloat with six survivors and one dead - and that paper measured 11.5 by 27 centimeters with eight names and three blue-ink circles. How did a single wrong coordinate send rescuers eighteen nautical miles away and almost cost lives?

In this episode, you will hear the sequence of events from the collision on November 8 to the lifeboat found on November 19, learn who was aboard Lifeboat One and what happened during those eleven days, and follow how a dry piece of paper factored into the official inquiry and the late unraveling of the search error.

Person: Darlene McCarthy
Date: November 19, 2011
Location: Pelican Flats Marina, Corpus Christi
Event: Collision between MV Brauer Star and MV Sula Drift on November 8
Status: Lifeboat found with six survivors and one deceased after eleven days

- The yellow paper recovered measured 11.5 by 27 centimeters and contained eight names in two columns with three circles drawn in blue ink.
- The Brauer Star sank in forty-one minutes after striking the Sula Drift at 22:17 on November 8.
- The rescue coordination center searched a grid eighteen nautical miles away from where the survivors were actually drifting.
- Lifeboat One held seven named occupants: Dawn Wallace, James Pell, Marcus Webb, Dennis Farrow, Rey Buenaventura, Oleg Marchenko, and Fernando Delgado.
- The lifeboat drifted in the Gulf of Mexico for eleven days before being discovered by a contract worker pumping a holding tank.

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