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A Hand Rises From the Water: The Rescue of Edward Simmons
A Hand Rises From the Water: The Rescue of Edward Simmons
A hand resting palm-up above a life raft, two hundred yards offshore and seen from sixty feet up a tower - that image collapsed twenty-two minutes of uncertainty into a single question: was the person alive? The raft held a man who had been at sea for eleven days, with a search that had covered the wrong coordinates and stopped after seventy-two hours; how did he survive when systems failed?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led to Edward Simmons being found alive after eleven days at sea, and the key decisions and…
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