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When the Sightseeing Boat Shouldn't Have Left: Death at Shiretoko
When the Sightseeing Boat Shouldn't Have Left: Death at Shiretoko
The Okhotsk Sea was still laced with drift ice and the forecast called for winds nearly double the Kazu I’s licensed limit-yet the tour boat departed with 26 people aboard. Every critical failure-from a broken radio for three months to an inoperable satellite phone-was documented and signed; how did a single operator’s cost-cutting choices turn a sightseeing trip into a fatal voyage?
In this episode, we present the recorded sequence of decisions, maintenance logs, and weather data that preceded the April 23, 2022 voyage…
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