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Alone with the Rope: How a Freediver Vanished Then Came Back
Alone with the Rope: How a Freediver Vanished Then Came Back
Fear of being cut off from the surface - alone at forty meters with a snapped line - is the exact terror this episode delivers: a size medium neoprene glove threaded onto a severed yellow rope was found on a boat at 7:41 AM on January 9, 2019, but the diver was missing. How did a routine freedive in Pelican Cut turn into sixty-seven minutes between the first distress call and a woman pulled from the water?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events and the concrete details recovered from that morning to understand what unfolded…
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