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Alone at 29 Meters: How She Mapped Her Own Rescue
Alone at 29 Meters: How She Mapped Her Own Rescue
Fear tightens in the throat when you imagine being alone in a flooded cave with one-third of your air left and no light - Marilyn Roberts survived seventy-seven hours like that and left a dry, folded map at the sink’s lip; how did that paper travel nine meters through fractured limestone and arrive crisp and readable? What compelled her to draw a map in total darkness with scarce air and no working light?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the April 11 solo dive through the discovery of the map on April 14 and the subsequent rescue…
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