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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.

  1. 1h ago

    The Logbook That Found Her: Surviving Alone After the Mast Fell

    The Logbook That Found Her: Surviving Alone After the Mast Fell Her logbook washed ashore before anyone knew she was alive - a thirty-one-foot sloop drifting sixteen miles southeast of Cape Lookout hid a woman who had spent thirty hours sawing through rigging after her mast fell, with the EPIRB and GPS lost to the sea. How did a damaged boat, a single logbook, and a surveyor eight inches off change a rescue that almost never happened? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Teresa McCarthy’s planned solo passage to Bermuda through the squall that tore her mast down, the thirty hours she spent cutting herself free, and the logbook that led searchers to her; how did that notebook become the only clue that kept her from vanishing entirely? Person: Teresa McCarthy Age: 28 Vessel: Nora Jean, 31-foot sloop Found: April 23 at 09:40, 16 miles southeast of Cape Lookout Logbook found: April 22 on a tidal flat in Carteret County - The log’s last entry was dated April 18. - Teresa had logged more than 4,000 offshore miles on the Nora Jean. - The squall occurred the night of April 11 after a barometer drop of 4 millibars in three hours. - She spent 30 hours cutting through cable and aluminum after the forestay parted and the mast collapsed. - She had 20 liters of water and no EPIRB or GPS after the mast went overboard. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Logbook That Found Her: Surviving Alone After the Mast Fell

  2. 1d ago

    Twenty-Two Miles Inland: The Cracked Beacon and Lost Crew

    Twenty-Two Miles Inland: The Cracked Beacon and Lost Crew An orange EPIRB shell, sun-bleached on one side and vivid on the other, was found balanced on a pressure tank in a yard twenty-two miles from the ocean - its seam cracked and its electronics gone. What linked that empty casing to a forty-two-foot fishing vessel, three missing people, and a last transmission of two calm words: "taking water"? In this episode, we tell the sequence of discoveries from the Harmon property photograph through the Coast Guard search: who was aboard the Doris Kay, what equipment the vessel carried, and how the last known position shaped the search and drift model. How did that cracked beacon end up so far inland, and what does the debris say about the fate of the crew? Person: Marie Green Person: Dennis Falk Person: Aaron Pettis Date: March 5, 2011 Event: Last transmission - "taking water" - The EPIRB casing was found on March 12, 2011 at 6:40 a.m, on Sutter Point Road. - The Doris Kay departed Portsmith on March 2, 2011 and was reported sixty-one miles southeast by noon on March 5. - The final radio transmission was received at 8:20 p.m. on March 5 and consisted of two words: "taking water." - The Doris Kay was a forty-two-foot fiberglass-over-wood fishing vessel built in the mid-1980s with an EPIRB mounted beside the hatch. - Searchers recovered a blue foam cushion and a fuel filter housing marked with the Doris Kay's documentation number on March 7. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Twenty-Two Miles Inland: The Cracked Beacon and Lost Crew

  3. 2d ago

    Ninety-One Hours: How a Cheap Casio Saved Christine Quinn's Life

    Ninety-One Hours: How a Cheap Casio Saved Christine Quinn's Life The cold of the Atlantic and a twelve-dollar Casio kept a twenty-three-year-old alive for roughly ninety-one hours after a February capsize; the watch stopped working for everyone but the one person who needed it most. How did a defective seal on a cheap digital watch, a misread weather risk written in a logbook, and search teams looking eleven miles the wrong way combine to stretch survival into four days? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to recovery, following the people aboard the Delia Ann, the evidence washed onto Pelican Flats, and the decisions that set the search off-course - and ask how chance and preparation collided to produce an improbable survival. Person: Christine Quinn Person: Kevin Pruett Person: Mark Avery Date: February 8-12, 2009 Location: Pelican Flats, Georgia - The Delia Ann capsized between 0200 and 0300 hours on February 9 in sustained winds of 41 knots and gusts up to 53 knots. - Christine Quinn was found after approximately ninety-one hours; her hand was beneath a working Casio still displaying the correct minute. - Christine noted a small craft advisory in her personal logbook at 1417 on February 8 with the entry "K says it'll blow through by midnight. I doubt it. Going anyway." - The Casio watch was a $12 digital model, pulled from the water and later found running on a sandbar atop an inverted hull. - Search assets were deployed looking eleven miles in the wrong direction from where the hull drifted southeast to Pelican Flats. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Ninety-One Hours: How a Cheap Casio Saved Christine Quinn's Life

  4. 3d ago

    The Dry Card on Slip Fourteen: How Two Sailors Vanished at Sea

    The Dry Card on Slip Fourteen: How Two Sailors Vanished at Sea A laminated tide table found dry in a gray fender bag at slip fourteen carried a handwritten distress: "Marguerite, ketch, 42 ft. Cap shroud failure. Two souls. EPIRB activated 12:22 January 5." How did a seaworthy-sounding signal end up as a bottle on a dock, and were its senders still alive when it washed ashore? In this episode, we follow the timeline from a paperboy's discovery at Pelican Flat Marina to the search-and-rescue response in New Orleans, tracing the voyage of the ketch Marguerite, the documented rigging concerns before departure, and the moment the mast failed at sea - and we keep asking whether enough was known, documented, and acted on to save two lives. Person: Gail Wilson Person: Marcus Webb Date: January 5, 2014 Location: 110 nm SSE of Southwest Pass Event: EPIRB activated at 12:22 - The laminated card was found bone dry inside a gray fender bag at slip fourteen on January 7. - Charles Jones, age 14, discovered the bag during his paper route on January 9 and called his mother. - Gail Wilson, age 38, had surveyed Marguerite and noted standing rigging last replaced in 2004. - The voyage departed Mobile on January 3, 2014, bound for Veracruz, approximately 900 miles. - At 11:40 on January 5, the Marguerite's starboard cap shroud failed about 110 nautical miles SSE of the Mississippi mouth, mast coming down in under four seconds. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Dry Card on Slip Fourteen: How Two Sailors Vanished at Sea

  5. 4d ago

    The Unseen Current That Carried a Woman 41 Hours From Home

    The Unseen Current That Carried a Woman 41 Hours From Home The morning after a routine 12-nautical-mile crossing disappeared from tracking, a red dry-erase marker labeled "W. Taylor" was found standing upright on Route Nine-A - bone-dry, balanced in frost - while the rest of its vessel lay on the seabed thirty hours earlier. How did a sixty-two-year-old sailor and one crewman end up carried dozens of miles in directions no chart predicted, and what invisible force moved them where no search was looking? In this episode, we follow the timeline from departure to discovery, recounting the vessel's load, the crew's experience, and the search decisions made using standard maritime charts and drift models - and we ask whether a hidden underwater current rewrote every assumption about where survivors would be found. Person: Wendy Taylor Person: Marcus Okafor Vessel: Maren Leigh Date: December 7-9, 2019 Location: Portsmith to Gallows Island - Departure time: 14:17 on December 7, 2019 from Portsmith marina - Vessel length: 42 feet, built in 1988 and maintained by Outer Passage Marine - Cargo: two pallets of tile on deck, one crated HVAC unit on port rail, ~800 pounds of bagged concrete in the hold - Crew: Ted Okafor (owner-operator, 61), Marcus Okafor (24), Lyle Vance (38); Wendy Taylor (62) as passenger - Wreck found: 47 feet deep, nine miles northeast of departure; Marcus found clinging to a buoy 22 hours after being in the water To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Unseen Current That Carried a Woman 41 Hours From Home

  6. 5d ago

    The Dry Flare on Route Nine: How a Sea-Survivor Was Found Alive

    The Dry Flare on Route Nine: How a Sea-Survivor Was Found Alive A sealed orange flare, factory packaging intact and completely dry, sat in brown mud beside a tidal marsh-four days after a woman went missing at sea. How did a dry, unopened distress flare from a sinking 32-foot sloop end up on Route Nine and point to a survivor nobody had expected? In this episode, we tell the story of the woman who knew the sea better than most and the two-meter gap that almost killed her. You’ll hear how her preparations, the failed shroud fitting, the life raft’s nine-meter tether, and one unnoticed flare combined into a mystery that led a county maintenance worker to an impossible clue: what exactly happened between the sinking and that pristine flare? Person: Janet Christensen Date: November 14-19, 2011 Location: Route Nine tidal marsh outside Dellmarsh, Maine Vessel: 32-foot sloop Kerrigan's Run (Pacific Seacraft, 1987) Item found: Sealed orange flare, factory packaging intact - The vessel sank to a depth of 61 feet after the mast came down at 2:47 a.m, on November 15, 2011. - The life raft tether measured 9 meters, while the navigation locker containing the flares was 11 meters from the companionway hatch. - Janet left Carver's Landing on November 14 for an ~90 nautical mile delivery to Portland, an 18-20 hour sail. - Her grab bag contained a handheld compass, waterproof flashlight, portable VHF radio with ~8 hours battery, two protein bars, and a thermal blanket - but no flares. - The search for Janet had been running 72 hours when Warren Riley found the dry flare beside the drainage ditch he maintained. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Dry Flare on Route Nine: How a Sea-Survivor Was Found Alive

  7. 6d ago

    Deflated Raft, 41 Hours of Audio: She Came Ashore Alive

    Deflated Raft, 41 Hours of Audio: She Came Ashore Alive A deflated life raft, a digital recorder with 41 hours and 17 minutes of audio, and a woman who should not have made it ashore - found eleven miles south of the Satilla River estuary on October 19, 2017. What did those forty-one hours capture, and how did a solo sailor survive after her mast came down and her EPIRB activated in the middle of the Gulf Stream? In this episode, we follow the timeline from Dawn Kowalski’s departure from Brunswick Landing to the discovery of the raft in a salt marsh, listening to the recordings and the decisions that shaped the search. How did a single unrecorded navigation correction become the pivotal clue anyone piecing this together needed to answer what happened at sea? Person: Dawn Kowalski Date: October 5-19, 2017 Location: Brunswick Landing marina to eleven miles south of the Satilla River estuary Device: Sony ICD-UX570 digital recorder, battery at 4% Event: EPIRB activated at 02:27 on October 9, 2017 - Dawn left Brunswick Landing at 05:40 on October 6, 2017, aiming for Key West with an estimated 4-5 day passage. - The recorder shows 41 hours and 17 minutes of audio and was found sealed in a ziplock bag inside the deflated raft. - On October 7 at 22:14 the recorder was manually switched off for a 47-second gap, then switched back on. - The EPIRB activated at 02:27 on October 9 after the forestay parted and the mast came down to starboard. - Dawn had repacked and recertified the life raft 14 months before the voyage. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    Deflated Raft, 41 Hours of Audio: She Came Ashore Alive

  8. Oct 5

    The Drysuit on the Fence: How One Choice Sank Three Lives

    The Drysuit on the Fence: How One Choice Sank Three Lives The first thing found in a narrow alley on September 18, 2011 was an orange-and-black drysuit with "REED - NOT SHIP'S" stenciled on the chest, eleven miles inland from the ocean - the same suit that was the only thermal protection for three sailors who left Coos Bay on September 7. That single decision to wear one suit in 51°F water turned a routine 260-mile passage into two deaths, one survival, and a years-long search shaped by a mislocated EPIRB signal; how did one piece of gear become the last thread connecting them? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events from departure to the moment the suit was discovered and how an EPIRB position estimate, ocean eddies, and one lifejacket choice altered the outcome. You’ll hear accounts of what happened aboard the Cassidy Jane, the role of the drysuit, and the search that went in the wrong direction - but why did the raft drift away from the search corridor? Person: Gail Burns Person: Reed Calloway Person: Lou Petit Date: September 7-18, 2011 Location: off the Oregon coast / Coos Bay to Astoria passage - Three people left Coos Bay aboard the Cassidy Jane on September 7, 2011 for an approximately 260-mile passage to Astoria. - Water temperature that week was 51°F, where loss of limb control occurs in roughly 30 minutes and consciousness within about an hour without thermal protection. - At 16:17 on September 8, a port spreader failed, the mast came down, and water entered the forward compartment, prompting transfer to the life raft. - The vessel’s EPIRB activated and placed the boat about 48 nautical miles west-southwest of Tillamook Head, a position later determined to be incorrect for search modeling. - For four days, search aircraft and vessels covered more than 600 square nautical miles while an eddy system pulled the raft south and east away from the plotted search corridor. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

    The Drysuit on the Fence: How One Choice Sank Three Lives
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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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