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Alone, Anchored and Alive: How One Fisherwoman Outsmarted the Gulf
Alone, Anchored and Alive: How One Fisherwoman Outsmarted the Gulf
Fear tightens the chest when a lone vessel loses power forty-seven miles offshore and a 600-square-mile search returns nothing - yet a single orange-and-white life ring and a blue crab point to one survivor’s choices. How did one woman keep herself and others alive in 83°F Gulf water with a shredded impeller and only one engine left?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from departure to disaster and the decisions made aboard the Callie Sue, reconstructing the equipment failures, the misheard radio transmission…
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