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The Boat That Never Left: 37 Phantom Miles and a Silent Harbor
The Boat That Never Left: 37 Phantom Miles and a Silent Harbor
Cold impossibility: a 31-foot lobster boat logged a 37-mile GPS track at an average 14 knots the night before it was found tied to the dock with a cold engine and a full fuel tank - so what produced the phantom voyage?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline and evidence around the Elsa June’s impossible GPS record and the four-month documentation that followed, asking whether a failed clock and a saved route on a chartplotter can create a false voyage.
Person: Ralph Rice
Date: July 9, 1998
Location: Carver's Reach harbor…
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