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The Notebook: They Wrote Their Own Rescue

Imagine being lost at sea, your boat taking on water, and your only hope is a message scrawled in a notebook. On March 8, 2011, Randy Bell found an orange spiral notebook on Osprey Key, its pages dissolved except for a final, desperate entry. What incredible circumstances led this ordinary object to become a beacon of hope for a suspended search?

In this episode, we uncover the harrowing story of Gary Perry and Tom Vickers, two friends who faced a sudden squall in the Gulf of Mexico. We learn how a meticulous habit of writing in a notebook became their last chance for rescue after their boats were separated and their radio signals swallowed by a radio shadow.

Person: Gary Perry, Tom Vickers, Derek Pratt, Randy Bell, Michael Rice, Steve Pollard
Date: March 8, 2011 (notebook found), February 24, 2011 (trip launched)
Location: Osprey Key, Palmetto Harbor, Gulf Coast
Status: Rescue initiated by notebook entry
Event: Discovery of a notebook with a distress message

- Randy Bell found an orange spiral notebook on March 8, 2011, at 7:15 AM.
- The last entry in the notebook, dated March 4, included coordinates and a water temperature of sixty-three degrees Fahrenheit.
- Gary Perry, 24, and Tom Vickers, 26, launched from Palmetto Harbor on February 24, 2011, for a trip eighteen miles south.
- A squall arrived at 1:17 PM, from the southwest, at approximately thirty knots, disabling both motors within four minutes.
- Derek Pratt, in the second boat, was found alive on day three, exactly where drift models predicted, but Gary and Tom were not.

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