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The Captain Who Lied While Survivors Waited on a Sandbank
The Captain Who Lied While Survivors Waited on a Sandbank
Fear that someone near you chose to sail on while you lived: the Bridgewater reported every soul lost though dozens of men clung to a sandbank alive; why did the captain file a false report that erased survivors? Did he know the reef existed because his own ship had passed it, or was there another reason he declared all lost?
In this episode, we follow the surviving documents and official logs to lay out what is recorded about the disaster and the contradictory facts that remain unresolved, closing on the central question that drives…
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