The Six-Minute Logbook: How a Lighthouse Called Men Back From Death
The Six-Minute Logbook: How a Lighthouse Called Men Back From Death
Cold, isolated, and watching a causeway drown, a twenty-four-year-old lighthouse attendant wrote six words in a logbook at 11:47 PM on September 9, 2021 - “Vessel in distress, Channel 16, responding now.” The county’s automated radio log shows no Channel 16 transmission until 11:53 PM, when a vessel four point two miles offshore called in amid sixty-one-mile-per-hour winds - so what bridged that six-minute gap?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events recorded in the Heron Point logbook and county radio records, the…
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