From the archive: Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims

The Audio Long Read

The Guardian

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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We are raiding the Guardian Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors This week, from 2020: Gene and Sandy Ralston are a married couple in their 70s, who also happen to be among North America’s leading experts at searching for the dead. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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1:13.0	The Guardian Archive Long Read.
1:25.0	My name is Doug Horner.
1:27.0	I'm a freelance journalist and writer based out of Calgary, Alberta in Canada.
1:33.0	The name of the article I wrote for the Guardian Long Read is Bring Up the Bodies,
1:38.0	the retired couple who find drowning victims, and it came out in early 2020.
1:46.0	I think I first knew I wanted to write about this story as I was first hearing about it.
1:52.0	The type of story where one question quickly gets another one.
1:57.0	I've never heard about the world of underwater recovery before.
2:02.0	That's a lucky thing.
2:05.0	I think most people don't ever hear about it unless you have someone you know drown and go missing in water.
2:12.0	But at the same time that you're discovering that there are people that go out looking for bodies in water,
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