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At six forty in the morning on the nineteenth of July
At six forty in the morning on the nineteenth of July
The worst kind of wrong information can feel like a life sentence when the ocean is involved: a dry-sided life ring bolted to a commercial vessel washed up on a roadside, half-burned and lying beside an unconscious woman in a survival suit - and the Coast Guard had been searching forty miles away. How did equipment that worked and a transmitted position that sounded precise send rescuers in the wrong direction, and what happened in those three lost days?
In this episode, we follow the chain of events from a road grader operator's discovery…
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