Crab Pot Radio: 60 Hours of Signals from a Lost Boat

Survival Stories 24/7 · Jul 22, 2026 · 17m

Crab Pot Radio: 60 Hours of Signals from a Lost Boat

A crab pot less than a mile from the Oregon coast held a handheld VHF radio that had been transmitting for nearly sixty hours-while drift models put the missing vessel thirty miles offshore. The radio’s steady green power light and a nest of orange fabric rewrote the search; who was still out there and what did those sixty hours reveal?

In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure through the storm and the search, laying out the physical evidence that redirected the Coast Guard's efforts and the unanswered questions it…