Chasing Thunder - Snap Classic
Snap Judgment
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🗓️ 31 October 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
For 110 days Peter Hammarstedt and his group of ocean vigilantes hunted the most notorious poacher of sea bass on the high seas, known as the Thunder. Their journey turns into an epic chase across 10,000 miles, two seas, and three oceans, through massive ice floors, violent clashes, and storms-tossed seas, where only one ship makes it home.
This story contains explicit language, sensitive listeners please be advised.
Thank you so much to Peter Hammarstedt for sharing your story with us!
Thanks as well to Ian Urbina. We first heard about this story thanks to his reporting. You can find his book, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, on Knopf, Amazon, or anywhere books are sold. Ian has a great collection of stories and books about the lawless ocean.
Also, BIG thanks to Brick City TV & Mark Benjamin for sharing the audio from their documentary, Ocean Warriors: Chasing the Thunder. You can see a trailer of the film here.
Produced by Nikka Singh, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 15 – Episode 48 – Snap Classic
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