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He Knew the Pin Would Fail - 5 Days Alone, Beacon Unused
He Knew the Pin Would Fail - 5 Days Alone, Beacon Unused
Adrenaline and dread: a fully charged emergency beacon sat twelve feet away as a broken man lay unable to reach it for five days-what makes a sailor ignore the one device that could save him? Could a note written nine days earlier explain why he never pushed the button?
In this episode, we follow the timeline of events aboard a thirty-eight-foot sloop from the day the skipper left port to the moment the mast came down, and we trace the decisions Keith Collins recorded in his log that led to five days alone with a working EPIRB he could…
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