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Alone at Sea: The Dry Book That Refused to Sink
Alone at Sea: The Dry Book That Refused to Sink
A dry library book was found wrapped in cling film inside an empty life raft floating in the Gulf of Mexico two days after a crabber hauled it up eleven miles south-southwest of Pelican Shoals buoy - how did the raft get away from the person who launched it, and were they still alive? The raft was salt-crusted, everything else soaked and ruined, yet The Practical Celestial Navigator remained perfectly intact; what does that single detail reveal about what happened next?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a missing solo sailor’s float…
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