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She Survived a Propeller Cut - How She Crawled Ashore
She Survived a Propeller Cut - How She Crawled Ashore
Cold water, a missing freediving fin, and a descent line cleanly sliced by a rotating propeller at four meters - Karen Simmons spent more than four hours fighting what should have been unsurvivable odds; how did a 38-year-old radiology tech and experienced freediver crawl ashore with one fin and thirty seconds of consciousness left?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the morning a charter fisherman found an empty carbon freediving fin to the search-and-rescue response and Karen’s hospital statement, laying out the…
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