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The Crab Pot in the Tree: How Four Men Vanished and One Returned
The Crab Pot in the Tree: How Four Men Vanished and One Returned
A ninety-pound steel crab pot was found eleven feet up a Sitka spruce, four hundred and thirty yards from the nearest water, with a herring bait bag still inside that still smelled - and no rope, ladder, or tracks nearby. The only spoken clue was a nine-second radio transmission ending with two words: "Merritt Island." How did a crab pot get into a tree, and what do those two words mean?
In this episode, we follow the departure, the detour, and the storm that left three men lost at sea and one survivor, tracking the exact…
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