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She Swam the Wrong Way - 11 Hours Racing Hypothermia to Survive
She Swam the Wrong Way - 11 Hours Racing Hypothermia to Survive
Cold physics met one woman's training: a 29-year-old wilderness instructor flipped in 41°F water, climbed to an eight-foot basalt shelf, and spent more than an hour fighting numbness - but the search teams spent eleven hours looking the wrong way. How did a routine paddle and a deliberately wedged yellow kayak paddle end up starting a race that only a county septic inspector's glance would end?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from Lori Brown's morning launch to the search that began when she missed a routine…
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