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Real Survival Stories

Earth’s Deadliest Waters: 1,000 Miles From Land

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 2017, Australian sailor Lisa Blair is going for a record - the fastest ever solo circumnavigation of Antarctica. She is nearing the finish line when out of nowhere disaster strikes. With her boat breaking in two, Lisa must pull off the most desperate of emergency procedures… all while battling the most treacherous waters on the planet… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For more on this story read Lisa’s book Facing Fear. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

A Family Day Out with a Difference

0:02.0

Join the race to help build the new Children's Cancer Center at Great Orman Street Hospital.

0:07.0

RBC Race for the Kids, a family festival and fun run, is coming back to London Hyde Park on Saturday 12th of October.

0:14.0

Bring the whole family to walk jog or scoot, 2K or 5K

0:18.0

and enjoy a day full of music, games and entertainment.

0:21.0

All while supporting Great Orman Street Hospital Children's Charity.

0:25.0

Kids Go Free. Sign up to date at gosh.org slash race.

0:30.0

It's around 10 p.m. on Wednesday, April the 3rd, 2017.

0:39.0

1,000 nautical miles south of Cape Town, South Africa.

0:45.0

A savage storm rages in the southern ocean.

0:48.4

Amid gale force winds and 8 meter swells,

0:52.3

a 50-foot sailboat is flung around between the breakers.

0:57.0

The power of the tempest has already caused the vessel irreparable harm.

1:02.4

The boat's mast has snapped off at the base. It lies on its side.

1:06.8

A jagged 22-meter length of aluminium horribly snarled up in a tangle of ropes, sails, and rigging lines.

1:15.9

With each massive wave, the mangled mast is dragged back and forth like a hack saw, its sharp metal teeth, splintering the wood and fibreglass deck.

1:28.8

Pretty soon, it'll cut right down to the hull and this boat will sink to the bottom of the ocean

1:34.3

taking 32-year-old Lisa Blair with it.

1:38.1

Lisa sits huddled at the front of the vessel, a trembling hands clutching the guardrails.

1:46.0

She has mere minutes, seconds even, to work out what to do, to calculate how to salvage her boat and save her life.

1:55.0

And I knew I needed to disconnect the rigging and get it off the boat quick before it cut a hole too big in the boat and I started sinking

2:07.9

Because if I had to abandon to a life raft in those conditions, I would never survive.

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