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The Tripod, The Ring, and the Rising Fog: Trapped by the Tide
The Tripod, The Ring, and the Rising Fog: Trapped by the Tide
Fear tightens as the fog closes in: a lone tripod stands two hundred and twenty yards out on a tidal flat with an orange life preserver ring hanging from its hook, no boat, no tracks, and a tide that will reach four feet two inches by 11:40-who left it there and why would someone remove the bracket bolts by hand? What followed turned a joke into the central clue of a rescue that nearly missed the point.
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Sarah Phillips spotted the tripod through the morning search and…
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