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Real Survival Stories

Tropical Cruise: Swim for the Shore…

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A tranquil boat trip around Indonesia becomes a terrifying test of will and endurance. Els Visser is a trainee doctor enjoying some well deserved downtime. But when her tourist vessel starts sinking in the middle of the ocean, she embarks on a life-or-death slog through the treacherous waters. A live volcanic island offers her best hope of survival. And not everyone will make it through the ordeal alive… A Noiser production, written by Martin McNamara. 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

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0:05.0

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0:17.1

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0:22.2

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0:24.0

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0:26.0

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0:28.0

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0:32.0

It's August the 15th, 2014, a cold night somewhere in the middle of the vast Flores

0:39.1

Sea of Indonesia. Theus black waves, pound a fragile wooden boat.

0:47.0

The tiny 25-meter craft bobs and bounces caught in the swell, adrift and helpless.

0:57.0

Around 20 tourists are crammed onto its deck. People are slipping and stumbling and bumping into each other.

1:05.0

Panicked glances are shared.

1:07.0

Angry shouts and agitated cries sliced through the darkness of the night.

1:12.0

There is a large breach in the boat's hull and they are

1:15.9

sinking. Water sloshes across the overcrowded deck.

1:21.6

Joceling amongst the throng of people, shivering in just her underwear and a life jacket,

1:28.0

his 24-year-old Ells Visser.

1:31.0

It's clear to Ells and everyone else on board, but their situation is appalling.

1:37.0

There is just a single lifeboat which can only hold six people.

1:41.0

It has no paddle and no motor. More critically, there's no radio on the boat,

1:47.0

so they can't put out a May day call. The furious, frightened travellers yell at the crew who cower in a corner.

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