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Beyond the waves, untold stories of the deep await. Shipwrecked Secrets uncovers the mysteries lost to the sea. Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary...
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Beyond the waves, untold stories of the deep await. Shipwrecked Secrets uncovers the mysteries lost to the sea.
Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary shipwrecks and the captivating tales of survival, sacrifice, and the strange occurrences surrounding them. From ancient vessels to modern maritime disasters, we delve into the human drama and the enduring allure of the ocean's forgotten graves. Discover the hidden truths and the powerful forces that shaped these dramatic events.
New episodes arrive daily, every single day of the week, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh mystery to unravel whenever you crave it. Each installment brings meticulously researched narratives, offering a unique perspective on these historical maritime events.
This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the ocean's power, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring secrets that lie beneath the surface. If you're drawn to tales of exploration, disaster, and the unknown depths, Shipwrecked Secrets is your port of call.
Subscribe now and let the tides of history pull you in.
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Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary shipwrecks and the captivating tales of survival, sacrifice, and the strange occurrences surrounding them. From ancient vessels to modern maritime disasters, we delve into the human drama and the enduring allure of the ocean's forgotten graves. Discover the hidden truths and the powerful forces that shaped these dramatic events.
New episodes arrive daily, every single day of the week, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh mystery to unravel whenever you crave it. Each installment brings meticulously researched narratives, offering a unique perspective on these historical maritime events.
This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the ocean's power, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring secrets that lie beneath the surface. If you're drawn to tales of exploration, disaster, and the unknown depths, Shipwrecked Secrets is your port of call.
Subscribe now and let the tides of history pull you in.
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16 SEP 2026 · The Watch That Kept Ticking After the Boat Went Down
A wristwatch found intact on a marina road on February 19, 2011 was still ticking and only off by less than thirty seconds - yet its owner had been missing at sea for four days and no float plan was ever filed. How did a self-winding mechanical watch survive salt and submersion, and what does that ticking tell us about the last hours of a twenty-six-foot boat that went down in unexpected weather?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of events from the morning the watch was discovered to the last confirmed sighting of the boat, tracing the timeline, weather records, search decisions, and a false bilge-pump alert that redirected resources. Could a misread wind shift and a crossed sensor be the difference between finding a vessel and losing it?
Person: Sherry Fisher
Date: February 16-19, 2011
Location: Pelican Sands marina and Gulf of Mexico off Egmont Key
Event: Missing vessel and subsequent search
Person: Glenn Hoffman
- The watch was found on February 19, 2011 by Glenn Hoffman while clearing a drainage ditch at Pelican Sands marina.
- The watch's second hand was moving and when held next to a phone it was off by less than 30 seconds.
- Sherry Fisher, 47, was last seen departing a vessel at approximately 11:30 on February 15 after inspecting a 42-foot trawler at Egmont Key.
- The National Weather Service recorded sustained winds of 32 knots from the northwest at 12:47 on February 15, arriving roughly two hours earlier than forecast and from a different direction.
- A bilge-pump sensor alert was logged at 23:43 from slip 14 the night of February 15, later traced to a crossed wire from a skiff in slip 13 owned by Dave Kupfer. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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15 SEP 2026 · Found Alive: The Barometer That Betrayed a Drifting Sailor
A sealed mahogany barometer case engraved "Heron Tide, Annapolis, Maryland" washed up in a Florida canal with its needle frozen at 29.4 inHg - a precise pressure reading that took weeks to decode. How did a Chesapeake instrument end up in Dellport, and what did that 29.4 reading really mean for the man who owned the boat?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from departure to disappearance, the search that went wrong, and the survival choices made on a disabled cutter-rigged sloop - culminating in the mystery of the barometer and its final resting place. What connection ties the drifted instrument, the EPIRB error, and the sailor who survived alone at sea?
Person: Neil Romano
Date: January 3, 2017 (departure)
Location: Eleven miles west of the Manatee River inlet (incident)
Vessel: Heron Tide, 38-foot cutter-rigged fiberglass sloop, built 1989
Pressure reading: 29.4 inches of mercury
- EPIRB activation decoded correctly but placed Heron Tide roughly 40 miles north of its actual position.
- Barometer needle was frozen at 29.4 inHg when found in a Dellport, Florida canal by Sandra Becker on January 19, 2017.
- Mast went down six days after departure when a squall rotated 40 degrees off forecast and pressure dropped 0.7 inHg in four hours.
- Neil had 4 liters of water and rationed to 1 liter per day beginning immediately after the dismasting.
- On day four he caught and ate a raw bonito to supplement his provisions. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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14 SEP 2026 · The Logbook on Dry Pavement: Lost at Sea, Found by Chance
A ship's logbook was found upright on dry pavement with pages open and no water damage-eleven days after a 42-foot motor-sailor vanished on a twelve-nautical-mile crossing. The logbook records an engine stoppage, a mistaken fuel entry, and a wind and current that no chart showed; how did these precise failures line up to erase three men from a routine run?
In this episode, we tell what the logbook records, who the men were, and the sequence of events from departure to engine failure, closing on the question of how an uncharted current, a bad gauge, and a fuel discrepancy combined to send the Edith Rae off-course.
Person: Kent Brown
Person: Dennis Cho
Person: Travis Holt
Date: December 8-19, 2011
Boat: Edith Rae, 42-foot motor-sailor
- At 6:40 AM on December 19, 2011, Kent Brown found the ship's logbook on dry pavement at Halo Point causeway.
- The Edith Rae departed Halo Point on December 8 with a listed fuel entry of 40 gallons in the logbook but marina records show only 22 gallons purchased the night before.
- The planned crossing to Dorado Key was twelve nautical miles and estimated to take less than two hours; last confirmed radio transmission was at 9:47 AM stating ETA 11:15.
- At approximately 10:15 AM the engine stopped and Brown logged "engine stopped, fuel starvation suspected, attempting restart."
- A buoy four nautical miles south-southwest recorded wind backing to north-northwest at 14 knots by 9:55 AM while a seasonal surface current ran south-southeast at 1-1.5 knots not shown on charts. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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13 SEP 2026 · The Logbook That Crossed 43 Miles: How April Survived
The thought of a waterlogged, salt-crusted logbook ending up under a backyard drain grate 43 miles from the nearest marina feels impossible - yet Dennis Rafferty found that exact notebook wrapped in a freezer bag and sealed with black electrical tape on November 10, 2019. How did a thirty-eight-foot sloop’s logbook travel across the open Atlantic and what did its pages reveal about the woman who may still have been alive when it went overboard?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from April Edwards’ organized life and planned nine-day offshore passage to the moment search-and-rescue teams began working an eighty-square-mile grid, and we ask whether the evidence in the logbook and the EPIRB’s cached position can explain what happened to April. What does a two-hour-old GPS cache, a downed mast, and a dog’s missed meals tell us about survival and failure at sea?
Person: April Edwards
Date: November 1-10, 2019
Location: Harwick Inlet / 43 miles offshore
Vessel: Carden Reach, 38-foot sloop
Rescue file: All portable equipment reported lost with vessel
- The logbook was found on November 10, 2019, under a basement drain grate on Osprey Spit Road.
- Dennis Rafferty discovered the notebook waterlogged, salt-crusted, in a freezer bag sealed with black electrical tape.
- April filed a float plan and departed Harwick Inlet on November 1, 2019, for a planned nine-day offshore passage.
- The EPIRB transmitted for four minutes on November 5, 2019, sending a cached GPS position nearly two hours old.
- The mast fell on November 5, 2019, when the forestay toggle fractured and the mast broke into three sections. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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12 SEP 2026 · She Spoke Into the Waves: 17 Days Adrift, Found Alive on Radio
Fear and disbelief: a woman's voice echoed from a floating radio for eleven hours while the official search had been suspended and a rescue team was chasing a ghost position sixty miles away - how did a registered EPIRB and a bent antenna turn a functioning system into a misdirection that left someone drifting for seventeen days? What exactly happened on those days between October 2 and October 19?
In this episode, we follow the sequence of events as reported: departure from Beaufort, the storm and knockdown, the failed position from a compromised EPIRB, and the eleven-hour live broadcast that finally alerted rescuers. We lay out how equipment, weather, and timing combined to create a life-or-death gap between a distress signal and an actual rescue.
Person: Christine Carlson
Date: Departure October 2, 2019; EPIRB activation October 5, 2019; found October 19, 2019
Location: Approximately 30-14 miles offshore of Ockham Inlet / Beaufort, North Carolina
Vessel: Ardent Midge, Catalina sloop, 31 feet, built 1983
Device: Standard Horizon HX890 handheld radio; EPIRB with bent antenna
- Christine was 29 years old and working as a marine inspector's assistant in Beaufort.
- The Ardent Midge was knocked flat by an estimated 22-foot wave in the early hours of October 4.
- The EPIRB activated at 07:18 on October 5 and was detected by satellite four minutes later.
- Ryan Lawson, a 33-year-old volunteer, found a floating radio tethered to a cracked orange buoy about 14 miles off Ockham Inlet on the morning of October 19.
- The recovered radio broadcasted the woman's voice into Sector Ockham station for eleven hours before she was confirmed alive. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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11 SEP 2026 · When the Mast Fell: Three Lost, One Woman, Four Days at Sea
Fog, a grounded thirty-eight-foot cutter, and a mast that should never have come down: the Carissa Bell came ashore with navigation lights still burning and one survivor barely conscious while two crewmen had vanished into fifty-one-degree water. What combination of metal fatigue, gear failure, and cold-water survival turned a routine September passage into four days nobody ashore knew were being endured?
In this episode, we tell what the transcript records about the Carissa Bell’s final voyage: the crew, the failing forestay fitting, the night a mast fell, and the first forty minutes of search that ended with two men overboard. How did an unseen crack and one wrong carabiner setting cascade into a lost-at-sea emergency?
Date: September 19, 2011
Location: Tucket Flats, Gulf of Maine
Person: Gail Lewis (54), Phil Asher (61), Owen Vance (32)
Vessel: Carissa Bell, 38-foot fiberglass cutter, built 1989
Temperature: 51 degrees Fahrenheit (water at Pemaquid Point buoy)
- At 7:42 AM on September 19, a passerby saw the Carissa Bell grounded in 18 inches of water with navigation lights on and the mast missing.
- Gail Lewis was found conscious but barely, wearing a drysuit four sizes too large with cuffs sealed by electrical tape.
- Phil Asher and Owen Vance were not on board when rescuers arrived and were never found after going overboard.
- The diesel tank aboard the Carissa Bell was dry and the EPIRB transmitted a signal to the wrong place.
- The forestay fitting had a stress fracture present and propagating for at least two seasons, undetected until the mast fell. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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10 SEP 2026 · The Nail and the Missing Shoe That Saved Two Lives Overboard
A single child's white canvas sneaker, size five, bleached and nailed to a channel marker sixty miles from the nearest shipping lane, set off a Coast Guard search that would trace back ten days of small errors and one pair of decisions that saved two lives. What began with a fisherman hauling up an impossible shoe at 4:30 a.m. on August 9, 2003, became the center of the nine-day story of the Nomé Bravo-how did a nailed shoe become the clue to a survival at sea?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the Nomé Bravo's departure to the squall that capsized her, the automatic life raft, and the hours that followed; we follow the people involved and the decisions that put a six-year-old in the water holding a sailor's wrist-how did that wrist and one raft turn disaster into survival?
Date: August 9, 2003
Vessel: Nomé Bravo
Person: Gary Reed
Victim: Lily Selby, age 6
Location: 60 miles southwest of the Marquesas Keys
- A fisherman named Marvin Walker found a left canvas sneaker, size five, nailed with one carpenter's nail to a channel marker buoy at 4:30 a.m.
- The Nomé Bravo was a thirty-eight-foot ketch with a four-person hydrostatic-release life raft that inflated on immersion.
- The squall produced sustained winds estimated at 50 knots and shredded the mainsail from the second batten down.
- At 11:47 PM the boat rolled ninety degrees to starboard, rolled again, and did not return, throwing Gary and Lily into the water.
- Lily Selby had been wearing Payless white canvas sneakers bought three weeks earlier and identified later by her mother, Terri Selby. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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9 SEP 2026 · How a Single Typo Left a Sailor Invisible at Sea for Nine Days
A single wrong character in a fifteen-digit beacon code turned a full-scale rescue into a bureaucratic ghost story: Rhonda Stewart activated her EPIRB after her mast came down in 40-knot winds, yet her distress signal routed to another boat and the case was closed. How did one transposition error in position nine of a hex code make a prepared sailor effectively invisible for nine days?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the beacon found on Calhoun Key to the database transfer that sent the alert to the wrong vessel, and we map the procedural gaps that let a live distress signal be misattributed - could one verification step have changed everything?
Person: Rhonda Stewart
Date: July 3-July 14
Location: 48 nautical miles southwest of the Dry Tortugas / Calhoun Key
Vessel: Meridian Spur (42-foot sloop)
Event: EPIRB activation with transposed character in position nine of a 15-character hex code
- Rhonda departed Sarasota on July 3 at 1600 hours with eight days of provisions and 22 liters of fresh water.
- At 0217 on July 5 Meridian Spur was 48 nautical miles southwest of the Dry Tortugas when wind logged 18 knots, then 52 knots four minutes later.
- The mast came down and Rhonda cleared rigging by hand over 40 minutes in 40-knot winds and eight-foot seas, then activated the EPIRB.
- A contractor entered the beacon’s 15-character hex code with a transposition error in the ninth position during a spring database transfer.
- The mistaken code redirected the distress alert to Blue Advent, a 38-foot ketch registered to Stuart Nolan in Fort Myers, and the case was closed before AIS position cross-check completed. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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8 SEP 2026 · She Drank Saltwater and Waited: Six Days Lost After the Sloop Sank
Fear tightens when survival hinges on one person, one piece of equipment, and the ocean’s indifference: a laminated tide table card found perfectly dry on a dock 47 miles from its boat, which was on the bottom, and a retired marine surveyor who spent six days alive in the Atlantic after her sloop capsized - how did she survive, and why did no one know where she was? This episode centers on the vanished float plan, a stopped engine, and a single missing update that turned a routine solo trip to Bimini into a week-long disappearance.
In this episode, we follow Kathleen McCarthy’s final voyage from launch to the moment she surfaced under her overturned sloop, and trace the documented stops, timestamps, and decisions that framed the search - ending on the same unresolved question the tide table card posed: how did routine preparedness become a six-day drift into uncertainty?
Person: Kathleen McCarthy
Age: 61
Boat: Ardent, 32-foot sloop
Departure date: June 16
Last on-land record: Fuel receipt at Pelton Cay, 9:55 AM June 16, 92 gallons
- Float plan filed at Rennick River Marina with expected return June 21; Ardent left dock at 6:40 AM on June 16
- Pelton Cay fuel receipt timestamped 9:55 AM on June 16 for 92 gallons - last confirmed record on land
- Engine seized at approximately 11:40 AM on June 16, about eight miles offshore northeast of Pelton Cay
- Winds reached 30 knots by nightfall on June 16 and gusts up to 45 knots by 2:00 AM on June 17 during the capsize
- Companionway hatch cover (approx. 4 ft by 2.5 ft) floated free at capsize; grab bag with flares and backup radio went down with the vessel To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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7 SEP 2026 · Life Ring Ashore: How Calliope's Grace Vanished Offshore
The first image is a thirty-inch white fiberglass life ring standing upright between red cedar roots, four miles from the nearest navigable water - dry and still with CALLIOPE'S GRACE printed on it. How did a ring from a boat that ended up on the ocean floor travel sixty-one miles in the wrong direction and leave two survivors, one fatality, and a search that started in the wrong place?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of decisions, currents, and failed forecasts that led from a planned Bermuda passage to a three-week search that began two hundred and twenty miles from where the survivors actually were. How did a textbook seamanship call to heave-to and deploy a sea anchor shift everything, and what did one life ring reveal that search planners missed?
Person: Monica Parker
Person: Walt Gibbs
Person: Iris Tong
Date: May 7-9, 2019
Location: Morehead City, North Carolina
- The life ring measured thirty inches across and read CALLIOPE'S GRACE in black letters.
- The crew departed Morehead City on the morning of May 7, 2019 for a 1,060 nautical mile passage to Bermuda.
- Monica Parker, age 24, owned forty percent of the 38-foot sloop Calliope's Grace; Walt Gibbs owned sixty percent.
- While heaved-to and anchored for eighteen hours, the vessel was carried sixty-one miles southwest by a cold current running 2.5-3 knots.
- Susan Bennett’s initial search datum placed the mathematical center 220 miles east-southeast of Morehead City based on the filed float plan. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
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Beyond the waves, untold stories of the deep await. Shipwrecked Secrets uncovers the mysteries lost to the sea. Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary...
show more
Beyond the waves, untold stories of the deep await. Shipwrecked Secrets uncovers the mysteries lost to the sea.
Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary shipwrecks and the captivating tales of survival, sacrifice, and the strange occurrences surrounding them. From ancient vessels to modern maritime disasters, we delve into the human drama and the enduring allure of the ocean's forgotten graves. Discover the hidden truths and the powerful forces that shaped these dramatic events.
New episodes arrive daily, every single day of the week, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh mystery to unravel whenever you crave it. Each installment brings meticulously researched narratives, offering a unique perspective on these historical maritime events.
This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the ocean's power, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring secrets that lie beneath the surface. If you're drawn to tales of exploration, disaster, and the unknown depths, Shipwrecked Secrets is your port of call.
Subscribe now and let the tides of history pull you in.
show less
Join us as we navigate the treacherous waters of history, exploring legendary shipwrecks and the captivating tales of survival, sacrifice, and the strange occurrences surrounding them. From ancient vessels to modern maritime disasters, we delve into the human drama and the enduring allure of the ocean's forgotten graves. Discover the hidden truths and the powerful forces that shaped these dramatic events.
New episodes arrive daily, every single day of the week, at 4:00 AM, ensuring a fresh mystery to unravel whenever you crave it. Each installment brings meticulously researched narratives, offering a unique perspective on these historical maritime events.
This podcast is for anyone fascinated by the ocean's power, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring secrets that lie beneath the surface. If you're drawn to tales of exploration, disaster, and the unknown depths, Shipwrecked Secrets is your port of call.
Subscribe now and let the tides of history pull you in.
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