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Decoding The Unknown

What happened to the SS Waratah?

Decoding The Unknown

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Join us on a journey to uncover the mystery of the SS Waratah, a luxury liner that vanished without a trace in 1909, leaving behind no answers, only questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone welcome back to another episode to Decoding the Unknown I'm your host

0:02.7

Simon why I'm saying one of my rights to this case ills are rice me a script what happens to the

0:05.5

SS Waratar we're gonna read it together and it starts with a letter Dear diary.

0:16.4

My second voyage to Australia proved uneventful.

0:19.3

It was so good to feel the sea spray on my hull again. Is this letter all for the respect of

0:24.6

a boat? This is the weirdest start of her decoding the unknown ever. After the

0:28.8

little incident on my first trip I was worried that I would be stuck in those dry docks forever. We've delivered our precious

0:35.4

cargo and passengers. Wait, is this going to Australia? Where is it going? It's like a boat to Australia.

0:41.6

Precious cargo and criminals.

0:44.0

And the crew is scurrying about to load everything for our next trip.

0:47.0

Humans are such strange little creatures digging things up here and there.

0:50.0

Loading it onto ships to take there only to load stuff up and send it back here again.

0:54.3

I don't mind.

0:55.3

I'm a ship.

0:56.3

Sailing is what I do best.

0:58.3

Tomorrow morning we leave for Durbin, we might pick up a passenger or two, but we won't

1:02.3

stay long.

1:03.2

Then onwards to Cape Down.

1:04.5

I'm a little nervous, the waters there are treacherous.

1:06.6

I trust my Captain and my crew, but we don't know each other that well just yet.

1:10.7

I can't tell what they're about to do do and I know they feel the same about me.

1:14.0

The ship's in dry dock told me not to worry another voyage or two and we'll soon understand each

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