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Buoy on a Power Line: How Tammy Survived 15 Frozen Hours

Buoy on a Power Line: How Tammy Survived 15 Frozen Hours

Cold, precise, and impossible: a Day-Glo yellow surface marker buoy labeled TZ-7 was found eleven feet high on a utility pole and a quarter mile from the nearest water the morning after Tammy Zeller dove alone into Kellam Inlet - how did a buoy end up on a power line, and where was the woman it marked?

In this episode, we follow the timeline and facts of Tammy Zeller’s January 15, 2019 dive, the safety system she built over thirty years of solo diving, and the single moment when her tether snapped at forty-one meters - what happened…

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