Man Overboard: No Land in Sight

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In 2013, Brett Archibald travels to Indonesia with some friends. His hopes for a memorable holiday come true… but for all the wrong reasons. During a stormy boat crossing, he falls overboard unnoticed. It’s the dead of night and he’s fifty miles from shore, without a life jacket. Brett has only one thing going for him: his indomitable will to survive. For more on Brett’s story read his book, Alone. A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. 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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0:24.0	It's late afternoon on April the 17th, 2013.
0:28.0	Saturday.
0:30.0	Tropical storm clouds dark on the skies over the Mentawi Strait.
0:35.6	It's an ocean channel that separates the Indonesian island of Sumatra from the Mentawi archipelago. For much of the year this 100 mile wide waterway is busy with
0:48.0	charter boats, ferrying surfers to and from the islands, a paradise of palm-fringed beaches and perfect waves.
0:55.0	Today, however, there isn't a boat in sight.
0:59.0	Little wonder.
1:02.0	These waters are also notorious for their unpredictable currents, strong winds, and treacherous reefs.
1:08.0	So when the passage is like it is now, churned up by stormy weather. Even seasoned sailors steer clear.
1:19.2	Except there is something out here in the waves or other someone.
1:24.0	50 year old Brett Archibald is is a big foaming ball of water.
1:40.3	So while I was just treading water, those things would hit me and push me under and I'd be tumbling over and over
1:47.0	Half the time I couldn't work out if I was going up or down
1:50.6	Without so much as a scrap of driftwood to cling to, he's been keeping himself afloat for hours,
1:56.0	treading water and praying for a miracle.
2:00.0	I'm really battling. I'm swallowing so much water I'm cramping so badly I'm going up down and I'm just thinking I've got to keep positive I got to keep positive
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