Icelandic Disaster: Retirement Gone Awry…

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

A recently retired theatre teacher sets off on a later-life adventure. Morrie Piersol joins a stunning ocean voyage from the US to Iceland. But in the North Atlantic, his grand retirement plan becomes something far more sinister. Morrie will face freezing temperatures, the constant threat of drowning, and memory blackouts. And even if the crew can be located, it’ll take a monumental effort to extract them… A Noiser production, written by Emily Webb. 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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0:32.8	It's July the 26th, 2017, approaching 3am.
0:43.8	285 nautical miles southwest of Iceland. Despite the hour, the proximity to the Arctic Circle means that the sky is illuminated by persistent
0:49.0	daylight, even in the depths of night.
0:53.4	Above the water, heavy clouds hang low, casting a dull,
0:57.2	muted glow over the sea. Rain pelts down, merging with a cold spray of the restless sea.
1:07.5	A small sailing boat, the valiant, sways and dips with the rhythm of the waves.
1:13.8	Its long, low silhouette, almost disappearing at times into the churning waters.
1:19.0	The white hull blending into the seascape.
1:24.2	Inside the boat, 65-year-old Mori Piersoe purchase in the companionway, the narrow passage
1:30.8	between the deck and the sleeping area.
1:34.1	Through oblong portholes, he observes the world outside, a palette of gray and white.
1:42.4	Mori is on watch. In conditions like these these with unpredictable weather, he and his crewmates operate in strict shifts.
1:50.0	Every three hours they rotate, ensuring the safety of the boat and each other.
1:56.0	The routine was for your three hours, check the radar, do a log entry of the conditions, the wind, the barometer, the charge of the battery state.
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