Swimming for Your Life in the Open Ocean

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

After two young pilots crashed their small plane into the water off Hawaii, they realized their best hope for survival was to make it back to land on their own. Sydney Uetmoto and David McMahon had been on a regular route between Oahu and the island of Hawaii, but now they were just specks in the sea with no way to call for help. In this riveting tale from the Out Alive podcast, we hear about their remarkable endurance in the face of overwhelming odds.

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0:00.0	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
0:14.5	Last year, one of the most listened to episodes we brought to you was titled an Appalachian
0:19.4	Trail Horror Story.
0:21.3	The piece was produced by our friends at the Out-A-Live podcast, a show from backpacker
0:26.4	about people surviving what should be unsurvivable scenarios in wild places.
0:32.2	We weren't surprised that it was a hit.
0:34.5	You all have made it very clear to us that you really, really like a survival thriller.
0:39.6	So, I have good news for you.
0:42.2	Today, we're bringing you a brand new episode of Out-A-Live, which just launched another
0:47.0	season.
0:48.0	It's a tale about what happens when the emergency that you've trained for, even though
0:52.8	you assumed it would never happen, actually happens, and this one involves a small plane
0:59.0	and the wide open sea.
1:02.3	More good news, Out-A-Live is growing.
1:04.9	Post-Lewisa Albany's is creating three seasons this year, so if you subscribe to the
1:09.8	show, that's a whole lot of survival coming your way.
1:14.3	Please enjoy the kickoff episode of the latest season of Out-A-Live.
1:22.1	My name is Sydney Wemoto.
1:23.5	I'm from Cali-Kikuo, Hawaii, on the big island, which is South Kona.
1:29.1	And I work for Hawaiian Airlines as a 331st officer.
1:32.5	My name is Dave Nickman, born and raised on Oahu over in Kailua, Hawaii, and also at Hawaiian
1:38.6	Airlines.
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