Abandon Ship: Sinking in 30-Foot Waves (Part 1 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A rookie sailor goes looking for adventure in the remote waters of the sub-Antarctic… and finds it. Matt Lewis joins the crew of a deep sea fishing trawler sailing out of Cape Town. But far out in the South Atlantic, a polar storm will catch them all unawares. Battered by giant swells, before they know what’s hit them they’re taking on water. The ship is going down… Many thanks to Matt Lewis. For more on his story, read Last Man Off: A True Story of Disaster and Survival on the Antarctic Seas. A Noiser production, written by Susan Allott. For ad-free listening, exclusive content and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started with a 7-day free trial. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.0	Saturday June the 6th, 1998.
0:27.6	The deep-sea fishing trawler, Sudu Havid, slides through the icy waters of the South Atlantic.
0:33.1	She's 200 miles from land at the edge of Antarctica.
0:37.8	23-year-old Britain, Matt Lewis, wakes from a restless sleep
0:41.6	with an uneasy feeling flooding his thoughts.
0:47.0	After two months at sea, he's almost used to the incessant role of the Antarctic waves and the
0:51.6	freezing blasts of polar wind. He's even grown
0:54.2	accustomed to the cramped confines of the aging rust bucket of a boat that has
0:58.4	become his home. But today he knows instantly that something's wrong.
1:05.0	Woken by the crash of falling objects, his sleepy eyes focus, trying to make sense of the strange slant of the curtains, hanging away from the wall at an angle of 30 degrees.
1:23.8	Getting dressed quickly, another sudden sideways
1:26.8	lurch of the cabin sends him fly. Clutching handrails, Matt staggers through narrow corridors and up metal stairwells,
1:39.0	hauling himself up towards the deck.
1:42.0	I can remember on the morning of Saturday the 6th of June just waking up and
1:46.6	looking out the door and seeing the biggest waves we had so far that trip. So I got
1:51.8	all my kit on like layers and layers of thermals and insulation and socks and boots and hats,
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