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Dry Cap on a Wet Post: How a Solo Swimmer Vanished in Gibraltar
Dry Cap on a Wet Post: How a Solo Swimmer Vanished in Gibraltar
A bone-dry orange swim cap labeled "JR-7" sat atop a steel post that had been underwater for at least six of the previous twelve hours above a strait where currents can drag a net a kilometer in under twenty minutes - and no swimmer, boat, flare, or wreckage was found nearby. How did a methodical swimmer with fourteen months of preparation disappear into one of the busiest and most treacherous shipping corridors on Earth?
In this episode, we lay out the timeline from the 4:50 AM entry off Tarifa to the Buena Travesía engine…
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