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Bilge Pump Handle in a Tree: How Three Men Vanished at Sea
Bilge Pump Handle in a Tree: How Three Men Vanished at Sea
A single stainless-steel bilge pump handle lodged eleven feet up in a red oak turned a failing maritime search into a rescue that found three men alive after two and a half days adrift - but why was that handle in a tree, and how did one short radio transmission send everyone looking the wrong way? This episode drops you into the moment Earl Porter called in late July 2019 and into a search that missed its mark until a utility worker’s find flipped the story.
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