Hovercraft Calamity: Out of Control
1/29/202652 min
Two brothers arrange a day trip to the Isle of Wight, off England’s south coast. Keen to experience a novel form of transport, they travel by hovercraft. But on the return journey across the sea, the bad weather rolls in. With the hovercraft overwhelmed, Andy and Tim Benford will find themselves thrust into the centre of a disaster with tragic consequences. Wrenched apart, they’ll enter simultaneous survival scenarios - each fighting for his life whilst unsure if the other is alive or dead…
A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.
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It's late afternoon on March the 4th, 1972. Off the south coast of Britain, a strong wind churns the dirty gray waters of the Solent, a narrow strait of the English Channel which separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland. The day is dark, the sun blotted out by heavy, somber clouds. Rain falls in fierce bursts from the ashen sky, mingling with the seething waves as they surge towards the shore. A gull screeches mournfully into the gale, the sound filling the sky before it's borne away on the cry of the wind. And then another noise rises above the squall, the monotonous drone of an engine. Hovering inches above the turbulent gray sea, the looming bulk of a vessel heaves into view, battling its way through the driving rain, kicking up a spray of spume in its wake. It's a strange-looking creature, neither boat nor plane, but something in between, a hovercraft. Using a cushion of air to float just