The ‘Aussie Mermaid’: Adrift in the Philippines

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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A mother and daughter relax into ten days of luxury on a tropical island. But fate has other plans. A day trip gone wrong leaves Michelle Hamilton alone in a small canoe, drifting out to sea. Over three terrifying days she’ll come face to face with punishing weather and apex predators. And her own beliefs will be profoundly changed… 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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0:00.0	Hot new drama is coming to Disney Plus.
0:03.9	Five, six, seven, eight.
0:05.7	When lives are at stake.
0:07.5	I have a post.
0:08.2	We've got to move fast.
0:09.1	Hearts are racing.
0:10.2	I love you, and I'm gonna love you.
0:12.0	And family is everything.
0:13.6	All right, team.
0:14.2	We work side by side.
0:15.6	New drama can't wait.
0:17.5	Set a reminder to stream the latest seasons of Gray's Anatomy and 911. Welcome back.
0:22.2	And the new series, Dr. Odyssey. Brace for Impact. Exclusively on Disney Plus, streaming this
0:27.5	October from 499 a month 18 plus subscription required. It's Friday, March the 10th, 1989, and the sun is
0:35.6	setting over the Sulu Sea in the southwestern Philippines.
0:40.3	The waters here plunge to over 20,000 feet in places, and beneath the surface, the vast chasm
0:47.3	fizzes with activity.
0:52.3	Hammerheads sliced through the water, passing devil rays and schools of fish.
0:57.0	Tiger sharks flash briefly, as the last beams of fragmented light catch their giant fins.
1:06.0	And as the sun disappears beyond the horizon, the scene is consumed by a heavy, impenetrable
1:13.6	blackness.
1:15.6	Bobbing on the dark ocean surface, Michelle Hamilton looks down into the inky gloom.
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