It’s important to know what you're getting into, but in many of life's decisions there's a hard truth of that not being completely possible. Like when joining the United States Armed Forces for instance. No amount of literature or film based on the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, can truly prepare one for all that such a career may throw at you. Or into. Or out of. Sources: Bearing Drift by Peter Eident The Sinking of the USCGC Cuyahoga | PropTalk Deadliest American Disasters and Large Loss of Life Events 1978 — Oct 20, USCG Cutter Cuyahoga hit/sunk by freighter Santa Cruz II ~Smith Point, MD-11 – Deadliest American Disasters and Large-Loss-of-Life Events Casualty Report ADA076437.pdf Please tell others about Marooned. Without you and your friends and neighbors listening, Jack and Aaron are likely to end up on a remote beach...marooned.
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The Luckiest Woman Alive
The idea of pulling a large parachute behind you until the wind catches it, then running down a mountainside until you're swept up into the air… is called paragliding. Some might argue that what was just described sounds more like a nightmare. For professional paraglider, 36 year old Ewa Wisnierska, back in 2007 at the Manilla XC Open - it was a little bit of both. Please leave us a review! :-) Sources: Miracle in the Storm (2010) Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TUIGvIkDDs BBC Interview with Ewa https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p05ky78m 2007 World Championship Results https://www.fai.org/sites/default/files/civl/documents/10th_fai_world_paragliding_championships_female.pdf https://www.fai.org/sites/default/files/civl/documents/10th_fai_world_paragliding_championships_overall.pdf http://xcopen.org/index.php/competitions/37-2007-xc-open-manilla https://xcmag.com/news/comp-series-understanding-competition-tasks/
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Marooned Xmas Special
Luna and Aaron sit down to discuss drones, the Brian Thompson shooting, as well as look back on more than a year of Marooned. Happy Holidays, everyone. Much love.
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Lewis Sweet
There's a lot to be worried about when out on the ice. Top of mind would be the threat of falling through. There's no more disconcerting a noise than that of a moaning fracture from beneath. Usually it's just the lake suffering some indigestion, but on Michigan’s Sturgeon Bay, back in January of 1929, a fisherman trying to snag some food almost became it when the black maw to the growling belly below split open in an attempt to swallow him. Lewis Sweet escaped that fate, only to find himself being served on a platter. Sources: https://www.outdoorlife.com/survival/frozen-terror-outdoor-life-survival-story/ https://www.preservewhiteshoal.org/lewis-sweet-story The Perilous Adventure of Lewis Sweet by O.J. Laylander https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071139433&seq=28 https://mff.forest.mtu.edu/PDF/1-TreeBasics/3-History.pdf
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USS Indianapolis
One would think that if they were to become catastrophically lost, stranded - Marooned - that a major improvement to the situation would be if a thousand or so of one's closest buddies could somehow be with them. One would think. But with rations low, and sharks plucking those buddies away one by one like hors d’oeuvres - chumming the waters - one might be better off alone. Sources: Setting the Record Straight: The Loss of USS Indianapolis and the Question of Clarence Donnor The Fateful War Patrols of I-58 - Warfare History Network The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis Triggered the Worst Shark Attack in History | Smithsonian USS Indianapolis: The Legacy (1080p) FULL MOVIE - World War 2, Military, Navy, History, War Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man by Lynn Vincent & Sara Vladic Hey! Does anybody ever read the show notes? If so, please rate and review Marooned so that Jack & Aaron aren't lost at sea. Thank you.
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