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The Laminate That Saved Two Lives: Drifted, Dried, and Discovered

The Laminate That Saved Two Lives: Drifted, Dried, and Discovered

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The Laminate That Saved Two Lives: Drifted, Dried, and Discovered

A dry, laminated veterinary vaccination card washed ashore after drifting through six inches of moving saltwater and led to the rescue of two people adrift 2.5 miles offshore; how did a small card survive a failed dry bag and a storm that pushed a dinghy thirty-eight miles from shore? What chain of events started when Ruth Griffin found a bone-dry card at the 2.25-mile mark south of Pelican Flats?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the March 2019 survey that went wrong, describe the people, gear failures, and weather that turned a routine seagrass survey into a search and rescue, and trace how a laminated card reconnected those adrift with shore - can one small object change a rescue's outcome?

Person: Kathleen Watson
Person: Marcus Beal
Location: Pelican Flats
Date: March 3-4, 2019
Event: Outboard engine failure during squall

- The laminated veterinary vaccination card drifted through six inches of moving saltwater and was bone dry on both sides when found.
- Ruth Griffin found the card at her two-point-two-five-mile mark where the shoreline curves south of Pelican Flats.
- Kathleen Watson had been missing for eight days when the card was found.
- The storm produced sustained winds of thirty-four knots with gusts to forty-one, and waves rose from two feet to eight in under forty minutes.
- By nightfall after the outboard failed, Kathleen and Marcus were approximately thirty-eight miles from Pelican Flats with no propulsion and a failing dry bag.

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