Father & Daughter Thrown Overboard: A Parent's Nightmare
6/17/202648 min
In May 2021, keen yachtsman Glenn Anderson is sailing up the coast of Western Australia with his 11-year-old daughter, Ruby. As they near the halfway point of their adventure, conditions turn brutally rough. And when their yacht is struck by a freak wave, father and daughter will be sent tumbling into the seething, danger-filled waters of the Indian Ocean. But falling overboard is just the beginning. With their vessel disappearing in the storm, Glenn will find himself in a terrible position as a captain... and an even worse one as a father...
A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.
Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Production Assistant: Chris McDonald | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound Supervisor: Matt Peaty | Sound design by Jacob Booth | Assembly edit by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley.
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[wind blowing] It's early afternoon, Sunday, May the 30th, 2021. On the coast of Western Australia, gale-force winds churn the waters of Jurien Bay into a turbid frenzy. The 40-knot gusts are multi-directional, blowing, it seems, from every angle, from all points of the compass. The result is confusion and chaos, an angry, frothing maelstrom. Waves barrel into each other, their foamy crests merging and erupting in vertical blasts of spray. Though we are just two nautical miles from shore, the rocky headland is obscured behind a shroud of sea fog. On one of the small islands that guard the entrance to the bay, the glow of a lighthouse perforates the mist. A faint, white pinprick in the all-consuming gray.