Marooned

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.    

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  

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.

In the summer of 1968, an English newspaper, The Sunday Times, proposed a contest - The Golden Globe Yacht Race - which challenged all comers to attempt the first single handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world. Many entered, but only one man, Robin Knox-Johnson, completed the sail, securing the Golden Globe Trophy and a cash prize of 5000 pounds. This caught the attention of Dougal Robertson (a former sailor in his late forties) along with his wife Lyn and their children - 18 year old Anne, 16 year old Douglas, and 12 year old twin boys Neil and Sandy, who together, followed the Golden Globe race from their dairy farm in rural Staffordshire, England. While watching a news report of the race, Neil, one of the twins, blurted out “Daddy’s a sailor, why don’t we sail around the world?” And this was how it started. Please share Marooned with your friends and co-workers. If not, Jack and Aaron may have to make do on an island somewhere with too few coconuts and too many Komodo dragons. Thank you. Sources: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/14/how-a-12-year-old-boy-survived-38-days-adrift-in-ocean/ https://nmmc.co.uk/2022/05/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-robertson-family-rescue/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W6R0x8RK6Q&ab_channel=LADbibleTV