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Nineteen Hours Alone: How a Dry Notebook Saved a Swimmer
Nineteen Hours Alone: How a Dry Notebook Saved a Swimmer
A fisherman found a yellow notebook three miles southwest of Tarifa with pages completely dry despite floating in the Strait of Gibraltar, and inside was a nineteen-hour, minute-by-minute account of a solo swimmer who navigated one of the planet’s busiest shipping corridors using only his arms, the sun, and a decision made in the dark; how did that notebook become the most precise record of survival?
In this episode, we follow the recorded timeline and team logistics that framed one planned crossing and an unplanned endurance test, and…
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