Sinking Cruise Ship: Launch the Lifeboats (Part 1 of 2)

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Moss Hills is a guitarist. He and Tracy, his wife, work as musicians on board a luxury ocean liner. It’s their job to keep the passengers happy, whatever the weather. But when the vessel hits deadly seas and the power cuts out, the couple will find themselves responsible for a lot more than the guests’ entertainment… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. Listen to Part 2 of Moss’s story right now, without waiting a week, by subscribing to Noiser+. Go to noiser.com/subscriptions to find out more. 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	If just thinking about your bills makes you feel confused and disorientated,
0:05.0	like your head is full of Raspberry,
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0:18.0	UK residents, T's and C supply.
0:25.0	It's the middle of the night. Saturday, August the 3rd, 1991.
0:29.0	A few miles off the eastern cape of South Africa, a luxury cruise ship, the MTS Oceanus, found us in heavy seas.
0:38.0	Fourteen knot winds shriek in the darkness as huge swells batter the stricken ocean liner.
0:44.0	30 foot waves crash across her guardrails.
0:48.0	Below deck, 35-year-old musician Moss,
0:54.0	hells, staggers down a dimly lit corridor.
0:57.0	He's breathing hard.
0:59.0	His eyes glisten with fear.
1:02.0	Fortunately, Moss doesn't need a light to find his way through this ship.
1:06.0	Its layout is etched in his mind.
1:08.0	He passes the boutique, the restaurant, the bar,
1:12.0	places that should be full of happy passengers.
1:15.0	But right now they're all deserted, or rather, abandoned.
1:20.0	Scattered objects lie strewn across the floor, a dropped handbag, a smashed glass, a life jacket.
1:29.0	Suddenly the ship lurches, forcing Moss to throw out an arm to catch himself.
1:35.0	He waits a moment before continuing along the corridor.
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