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The Dry Pink Shoe That Redirected a Coast Guard Rescue
The Dry Pink Shoe That Redirected a Coast Guard Rescue
A single dry pink child's sneaker on a soaked marina seawall-double-knotted, silver buckle, talla four-stopped a meter reader who then snapped a photo that rerouted a Coast Guard search that had spent thirty-six hours looking sixty miles in the wrong direction. How did one misplaced shoe and two words in a radio log change the fate of three men at sea?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from a July 15 departure through a rapidly intensifying storm called Tropical Storm Celeste, the last logged radio transmission of "Drifting east,"…
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