Shipwreck Stories

About Shipwreck Stories

What happens when a routine trip on the water suddenly becomes a fight to stay alive? Boat Accidents: Survival Stories explores real survival situations shaped by maritime accidents and the critical moments that follow when safety disappears without warning. We focus on how people react when conditions turn against them and every decision begins to matter. As you listen with us, you can follow the choices that influence survival and understand how quickly control can be lost when something goes wrong far from shore. We publish new episodes daily so you can return to another survival story from the water. Each episode brings you closer to the pressure of facing danger at sea and shows how preparation or quick thinking can become important when the situation changes. A boat accident can begin in seconds, but surviving it may depend on what happens immediately afterward. Stay with us and discover which decision can become the difference when there is no easy way back to safety.

Publisher

Creator at Obomedia

Category

history · leisure · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Jul 2026

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

131 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   19 Oct 2026

   Her Notebook Was Dry - She Survived Eight Days Adrift

   Her Notebook Was Dry - She Survived Eight Days Adrift The pages of a notebook wrapped in silver tape were bone-dry after weeks of rain and morning humidity at an intertidal flat - impossible facts that pointed to one living person who had written a phone number and vanished. How did a marine biologist survive eight days adrift while her personal locator beacon and radio gave her no answer? In this episode, we follow the sequence of events recorded in the recovered notebook and the official timeline: a solo departure from Creston Beach Marina, a hidden turn north, a squall that hauled the mast down in eight minutes, and eight days spent trying to signal for rescue. What exactly failed, what worked, and why the search began in the wrong place? Person: Cynthia Boyd Date: August 7-16 (last notebook entry August 16) Location: Pelican Flats, four miles south of Creston Beach Marina Event: Mast loss in a line squall with 50-knot winds at 16:16 on August 9 Status: Survived eight days adrift; notebook recovered dry - Cynthia Boyd was 48 years old and co-owned the 32-foot sloop Meridian for seven years. - A county surveyor found the notebook in mud at Pelican Flats wrapped in silver electrical tape and inside two nested zip bags. - The last notebook entry was dated August 16; the notebook pages remained dry despite 11 inches of rain in the prior three weeks and 90% humidity at 7 AM. - A line squall hit at 16:16 on August 9 with 50-knot winds lasting eight minutes, during which the mast came down. - The personal locator beacon (PLB) was struck by the falling botalón, appeared intact with no visible damage, but failed to transmit when Cynthia activated it multiple times. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

2. 

   18 Oct 2026

   Chart Found 41 Miles from the Sea: The Amy Crawford Survival Case

   Chart Found 41 Miles from the Sea: The Amy Crawford Survival Case A laminated nautical star chart was pulled from a ditch forty-one nautical miles from the nearest open water with "SHE WENT THIS WAY" circled under Scorpius - and the handwriting later linked to a woman who denied writing it. How did a marine electrician end up alone on a 40-foot sailboat after a midnight man-overboard, with a corrupted MAYDAY sending rescuers to the wrong place, and a logbook filled with entries she says she doesn't remember writing? In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to rescue: the offshore delivery from Morehead City, the stormy night when Marcus Webb went overboard, the emergency call that contained a corrupted longitude, the fifty-seven-minute search pattern Amy ran, and the strange handwritten evidence found later. What does the chart in the ditch and the unidentified log entries reveal about where "she went"? Person: Amy Crawford Person: Marcus Webb Date: July 14-16, 2019 Location: 92 nautical miles southeast of Cape Hatteras (MAYDAY position) Event: Man overboard at approximately 00:12 on July 16, 2019 - The Arendt departed Beaufort Inlet at 21:00 on July 14, 2019 for an offshore delivery to Annapolis. - Marcus Webb went overboard after a wave broke across the deck just after midnight on July 16, 2019; Amy activated MOB protocol at 00:12. - Amy searched a 57-minute man-overboard pattern, threw a lifebuoy ring she found, and transmitted a MAYDAY at 01:43 on Channel 16. - A service bulletin four months earlier described a defect in the chartplotter emergency firmware; Marcus had not installed the update, corrupting the longitude in the distress position. - On July 19, 2019, Nicole Wright found a laminated nautical star chart in a drainage ditch; Scorpius was circled and the words "SHE WENT THIS WAY" were written in block capitals. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

3. 

   17 Oct 2026

   Adrift Nine Days: How a Missing Buoy Nearly Erased Her story

   Adrift Nine Days: How a Missing Buoy Nearly Erased Her story A single partial EPIRB ping put her on a map 22 nautical miles east-southeast of Sapelo Island, and yet a laminated church bulletin from Macon, 260 miles away, was found dry in the raft - how did it survive nine days at sea and what did it mean? This episode centers on one sailor, one corroded bolt, and a missing data buoy that erased the sea’s hidden currents; can the strange facts explain how she lived through it? In this episode, we lay out the timeline and the equipment failures that shaped Michelle Vaughn’s nine-day ordeal and the unanswered question about the paper that should have been soaked; what does the raft, the partial EPIRB signal, and the dry bulletin tell us about where she had been? Person: Michelle Vaughn Date: June 8, 2019 (EPIRB activation) and June 14, 2019 (discovery) Location: Dunmore Reach, Willet Spit (life raft found) Event: EPIRB partial signal (position fix ~22 nautical miles ESE of Sapelo Island) Item: Laminated church bulletin dated June 1, 2019 (from Macon, Georgia) - The life raft was found partially deflated in marsh grass at Willet Spit at 7:42 a.m, on June 14, 2019. - The canopy interior was marked with "VAUGHN. DAY NINE." written in permanent marker. - Michelle triggered her EPIRB at 5:47 a.m. on June 8, 2019; it transmitted a single partial position fix then went silent. - A data buoy designated 41-GS-7 went offline on June 3, 2019, removing a key sensor from regional operational tables. - A laminated church bulletin dated June 1, 2019 from a Macon congregation was found dry in a mesh pocket about one foot above the waterline. To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com. © 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved. This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: business@obomedia.com.

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