Custom of the Sea | Decade of Dread #11

Wrong Station

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.7 • 708 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Enjoy 31 episodes in 31 days as Wrong Station celebrates a “Decade of Dread”. // DON'T WORRY, MY LAD-- // THE NEAREST LAND IS JUST A COUPLE WEEKS AWAY. // TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS AND SHARPEN YOUR KNIVES FOR... "Custom of the Sea," a maritime tale from Wrong Station. Written by Alexander Saxton and performed by Anthony Botelho. Celebrate 10 seasons of Wrong Station by subscribing to our Patreon at⁠ ⁠⁠⁠www.patreon.com/thewrongstation⁠⁠. Explore brand new benefits, hundreds of hours of bonus content, and help ensure Wrong Station stays on the air for another 10 years. The Wrong Station contains explicit content and mature themes. Episode-specific warnings can be found at⁠ ⁠www.wrongstation.com/c-w.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This October, the wrong station celebrates a decade of dread.
0:12.9	You can read the show notes to discover terrible new ways to celebrate with us.
0:19.7	Today's episode, Custom of the Sea,
0:22.8	is written by Alexander Saxton,
0:24.8	and performed by Anthony Betelow.
1:19.6	Music I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I can still remember the scream of timbers and the roar of flame as the frisand went down. Most hands, not all.
1:22.6	Few we were able to rescue from the freezing water.
1:26.6	Lieutenant Roderick was one, swimming strong,
1:30.1	despite the weight of his woolen blue-black coat. Spate, the cabin boy was another. He couldn't swim,
1:37.8	like most sailors, but Roderick had him grip by the shirt collar with one strong hand. He fisted
1:43.8	him out of water with her oars, and the boy was half drowned by the time we got him.
1:47.7	But Roderick, strong man that he was, pulled himself up into the boat before he'd let us pull him.
1:52.5	"'Damee!' he kept saying.
1:55.1	"'Damey, that near took my life.
1:58.2	But he was smiling, very wide.
2:04.2	Officers can be like that sometimes when they're young.
2:11.4	So they train them up until they get a bloody flux or a ghouly in the guts. You think it's all a grand adventure. Roe, Cutter, he told me, you've only a few minutes before the magazine goes up.
2:18.4	And so we rode.
2:20.3	Even a few more of our men crying out, clinging to timbers here and there.
2:25.7	We told ourselves we'd go back and look for survivors after the magazine went.
2:31.3	One of us was keen to.
2:33.6	We had a long journey toward nearest land, and there had not much food to share.
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