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The Woman Who Vanished in Ninety Seconds - Dry Goggles on a Cliff

The Woman Who Vanished in Ninety Seconds - Dry Goggles on a Cliff

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The Woman Who Vanished in Ninety Seconds - Dry Goggles on a Cliff

Fear of disappearing in plain sight grips this episode: a swimmer in a bright yellow cap and reflective wetsuit vanishes from clear water within ninety seconds while her daughter, two vessels and good visibility are within shouting distance - how can someone evaporate from the sea and leave only dry goggles knotted to a rosemary branch 41 meters above the Atlantic?

In this episode, we tell what happened the morning Jean Barnes left the Tarifa breakwater and why the search teams followed the wrong drift for hours; we follow the moment the escort boat was carried three hundred meters off track and the evidence that finally pointed away from open water - could a westward eddy and a flash of amber on a bluff hold the answer?

Person: Jean Barnes
Date: September 11, 2019
Location: Strait of Gibraltar, near Tarifa
Witness: Megan (daughter)
Escort captain: Hector Fuentes

- Jean Barnes was 55 years old and had completed the North Channel in 14 hours and 9 minutes at age 53.
- The escort vessel Rosamar departed Tarifa at 5:47 AM on the morning of the swim.
- At 9:22 AM a recreational motorboat’s wake carried the escort captain 300 meters off course in under four minutes.
- A county surveyor, James Baker, found amber swimming goggles knotted to a rosemary branch 41 meters above the Atlantic three days after the search ended.
- The westward eddy along the Spanish coast runs at one to one-and-a-half knots and pulled Jean northwest while search teams scanned southeast.

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