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Real Survival Stories

One Man and a Kayak: Adrift With Half a Paddle

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Geoff Hunter sets out on an epic maritime adventure. He’s attempting to circumnavigate Britain in a tiny, homemade kayak. Fierce weather, rough seas and even run-ins with the military all add hurdles to the journey. But it’s off the coast of Scotland that things go from dangerous to life-threatening. Geoff will find himself half-drowned and alone - clinging onto a piece of bobbing metal - in the middle of the sea… A Noiser production, written by Macalister Bexon. 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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It's 11 PM on July 31st 1970, just off the northwest coast of Britain. Trouded in cold mist, the murky muddy waters of the Solway Firth churn and swirl.

0:39.4

This inlet of the Irish Sea creates a triangular dent in the British coastline right at the border of Scotland and England.

0:49.0

Somewhere in this mouth of freezing cold water, around five miles from the coast,

0:53.4

a small navigation boy floats unsteadily

0:57.0

on the tumultuous surf.

0:59.8

The rusting metal cylinder

1:01.6

is just four feet wide, a tiny flash of colour bouncing and spinning among the inky black waves.

1:09.0

On top of the boy, clinging on for dear life, is a shivering young man.

1:17.0

24-year-old Jeff Hunter sits, curled up in a ball, one arm clusping a metal hook, a frayed piece of rope tied around his waist.

1:27.0

If he loses his grip on this tiny, slippery float, he'll be swept out to sea.

1:34.0

Jeff pulls the hood of his anoract tighter over his head

1:38.0

and tucks his legs closer to his body,

1:41.0

trying to stay warm.

1:42.0

I wasn't sure what the temperature went down to but as night

1:46.4

came it got definitely colder so I just sat on the thing longer and longer.

1:53.2

Eventually, as it got colder, I realized that I was going to have to spend the night on this boy.

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