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Why a Ship's Distress Beacon Turned Up in a Maine Cedar Tree
Why a Ship's Distress Beacon Turned Up in a Maine Cedar Tree
A Class B emergency beacon registered to a 42-foot sloop sent a 40-second distress alert with no clean position data, yet the boat and owner were 217 miles away and accounted for; eleven hours later a storm hit and the same device was found lodged in a cedar tree on a Maine lighthouse reservation - how did it get there? What sequence of events could carry a secured transponder from a locked locker in Massachusetts to a tree on the northeastern Maine coast?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the automated alert logged at…
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