Chasing Thunder

Snap Judgment

Snap Judgment and PRX

Snap, Glynn, Storytelling, Wnyc, Society & Culture/personal Journals, Performing Arts, Washington, Society & Culture/documentary, Arts/performing Arts, Music, Arts

4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

For 110 days Peter Hammarstedt and his group of ocean vigilantes hunted the most notorious poacher 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.

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

Sound design by Pat Mesiti-Miller

Season 11 - Episode 22

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0:00.0	Snap Judgment Studios
0:10.4	The first professional I spoke to about starting something called Snap Judgment.
0:16.8	He said that I shouldn't speak into a microphone because of my speech impediment.
0:23.0	Until that moment, I didn't know I had a speech impediment.
0:28.2	So we had to start without his help.
0:31.1	Instead, I asked for help from the people who'd heard these stories.
0:35.0	Now, if you've ever been unable to get out of the car,
0:38.8	the kitchen, the office, until you've heard the end of the story,
0:43.0	please become one of us and support the show that makes it happen right now at snapjudgment.org.
0:51.2	You can get Snap stuff, including Snap music, a chance to pitch your story
0:56.6	or backstage pass to spook live,
0:59.9	but join at a level that makes sense for you at snapjudgment.org.
1:06.1	It is the joy of my life to bring you these tales.
1:10.3	Please know that Snap Storytelling narrated by a guy with a speech impediment
1:15.3	simply doesn't happen unless you make it happen.
1:18.6	So I'm asking from one snapper to another,
1:22.3	please stop the show for just a moment.
1:24.9	Just a moment.
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1:40.4	Okay, Snap is, I'm a home cook, not a chef,
1:45.8	not a gourmand or whatever, a cook.
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