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Found Alive in a Sea Cave: Nine Days Trapped, One Survivor
Found Alive in a Sea Cave: Nine Days Trapped, One Survivor
Fear tightens when you learn a life can be mistaken for a discarded orange suit on a basalt ledge - and that misreading almost ended rescue before it began. A woman with a compound broken leg survived nine days without rescue in a tide-accessible sea cave after her boat sank hundreds of miles offshore; how did she hold on long enough to be found alive, and why was she the only survivor linked to the EPIRB signal picked up miles at sea?
In this episode, we tell the events as recorded: the departure of the Marta J., the EPIRB…
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