Our friend Paul returns to the pod to share the story of one of the world's most grueling yacht competitions - The Sydney To Hobart Race - and the deadly 1998 edition that claimed the lives of six competitors.

Paul is one of the hosts of the Emergency Traffic Podcast (@PodcastTraffic), which  examines firefighter and paramedic line-of-duty deaths.

Sources:

Dugard, Martin. Knockdown: The Harrowing Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly. Pocket Books, 1999. 

Mundle, Rob. Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race. McGraw-Hill, 1999.  

van Kretschmar, Hugo. "Report of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart Race Review Committee." May 1999. http://www.equipped.com/sydney-hobart/Vol%2013%20Docs/Report%20Cover%20to%20Page%2086.pdf

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It's the return of an old foe - the duck boat - in this special episode featuring Philadelphia's Finest: Tom Pain (@tohickontpain)  of Ten Thousand Losses (tenklossespod) - 'a sports podcast from a Philly, leftist, & pro-labor perspective.'

**production credit to Tom for the sound effect idea after 'Ride the Ducks International LLC**

Sources:

"Lawyer of victims in deadly Philadelphia duck boat crash calls for shutdown." WPVI Philadelphia, 20 July 2018. https://6abc.com/philadelphia-duck-boat-crash-ride-the-ducks-accident/3793040/

NTSB Report for the Incident 

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This week we're headed north to the waters off of Greenland - it's the story of the Danish vessel Hans Hedtoft, lost on the return leg of her maiden voyage in January 1959.

Sources:

"Der Untergang der 'Hans Hedtoft.'" https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/c8fffd76f76cf314ade861efcfd56862/der-untergang-der-hans-hedtoft/index.html

"Hans Hedtoft." Britannica, 25 Jan 2023. www.britannica.com/biography/Hans-Hedtoft

"Hedtoft-Untergang: Drei Fragen." Der Spiegel, 10 Feb 1959. https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/drei-fragen-a-9b49710b-0002-0001-0000-000042624108

Kämpf, Thomas. "Untergang der Hans Hedtoft / OXKA I." Seefunknetz, 16 Sep 2000. http://www.seefunknetz.de/oxka.htm

Nielsen, Karen. "Vi synker nu." DR, 27 Jan 2009. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/vi-synker-nu

Stimming, Elisabeth. "Der Mann, der hörte wie die 'Hedtoft' sank." Hamburger Abendblatt, 30 Jan 1999. https://www.abendblatt.de/archiv/1999/article204573899/Der-Mann-der-hoerte-wie-die-Hedtoft-sank.html

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We're going a bit further up the Ohio this week to discuss the loss of the towboat Elizabeth M in January 2005.

Sources:

Clowdis, Charles W. and Natasha Horowitz. "The River Barge Still Plays a Role in U.S. Transportation." S&P Global, 4 June 2009, https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/mi/country-industry-forecasting.html?id=106593483

Frazier, Reid R. "Pilot details rescue of 2 from towboat." TribLive, 5 Feb 2005. https://archive.triblive.com/news/pilot-details-rescue-of-2-from-towboat/

U.S. Coast Guard  report on the sinking of M/V Elizabeth M

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This week we are headed to the Queen City - Cincinnati, OH - to discuss the steamboat Moselle, whose explosive loss in 1838 spurred the US Congress to create the first federal legislation governing transportation safety.

Sources:

Aldrich, Mark. “Safe and Suitable Boilers: The Railroads, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and Locomotive Safety, 1900 - 1945.” Railroad History, no. 171, 1994, pp. 23 - 44. 

Burke, John G. “Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power.” Technology and Culture, vol. 7, no. 1, 1966.

Gelzer, Christian. "Speed is a Virtue: Travel in the Mid-Nineteenth Century United States." Technology's Stories: Past and Present, vol. 3, no. 2, 15 June 2015. https://www.technologystories.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Gelzer_Speed-is-a-Virtue.pdf

Hand, Greg. "From Bucktown to Vanceville: Cincinnati's Lost 19th Century Neighborhoods." Cincinnati Magazine, 20 Nov 2017. https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/bucktown-vanceville-cincinnatis-lost-19th-century-neighborhoods/

Thomas, Christian. "For Profit and Glory: Steamboat Racing on the Inland Rivers." River History, 26 May 2021. https://www.howardsteamboatmuseum.org/river-history/for-profit-glory-steamboat-racing-inland-rivers/

Suess, Jeff. "Our history: Steamboat explosion led to federal regulations." The Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Mar 2018. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2018/03/14/our-history-steamboat-explosion-led-federal-regulations/403819002/

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This week we dip back into the fertile shipwreck soil of the Graveyard of the Atlantic. 

Sources:

"Empire Gem." Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, https://monitor.noaa.gov/shipwrecks/empire_gem.html#:~:text=Today%2C%20Empire%20Gem%20rests%20at,lies%20broke%20in%20two%20pieces

Gentile, Gary. Popular Dive Guide Series: Shipwrecks of North Carolina from Diamond Shoals North. Gary Gentile Productions, 1993.

"Richard Zapp." U-boat.net, https://uboat.net/men/zapp.htm

"Type IX U-Boats." Naval Encyclopedia, 22 Dec 2019. https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/germany/type-ix-u-boats.php#:~:text=Type%20IX%2C%20the%20long%2Drange,coast%20and%20cruise%20well%20beyond

"U-505 (German Submarine)." National Historic Landmarks Project, https://web.archive.org/web/20120212012351/http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=2065&ResourceType=Structure

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This week we discuss the loss of the trawler Antares and the role played in her sinking by the Trafalgar-class submarine HMS Trenchant.

Sources:

"Minister says no more action on Antares sinking." The Herald, 19 Oct 1992.   https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12584178.minister-says-no-more-action-on-antares-sinking/

"Report of the Chief Inspector of Marine Accidents into the collision between the Fishing Vessel Antares and HMS Trenchant with the loss of four lives on 22 November 1990." Marine Accident Investigation Branch, 15 Apr 1992. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/54c1127c40f0b6158d00001b/MAIBReport_AntaresHMSTrenchant-1992.pdf

"The Sinking of FV Antares." British Sea Fishing. https://britishseafishing.co.uk/the-sinking-of-fv-antares/

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This fourth episode of Dead Reckoning is a reading of "The Body on the Shore," as shared in Frederick Stonehouse's Haunted Lakes (1997), asking the age-old question of how much money your sanity is really worth.

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This week we have special guest Jamie (from Old Shipping Lines on YouTube) to discuss the sinking of the British liner SS Vestris in 1928.

Sources:

Berchtold, William E. "More Fodder for Photomaniacs." The North American Review, vol. 239, no. 1, January 1935, pp. 19-30.

Grace, Michael. "Disaster at Sea - SS Vestris" Cruising the Past, 21 Nov 2009. https://www.cruiselinehistory.com/disaster-at-sea-ss-vestris/

"Lamport & Holt's S.S. Vestris." 3 Feb 2012. www.bluestarline.org/lamports/vestris.html

Olivier, Clint. The Last Dance of the Vestris. 2013.

Shenna, Paddy. "The sinking of SS Vestris - the shipping disaster that time forgot." Liverpool Echo, 21 Oct 2013. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/nostalgia/evening-read-sinking-ss-vestris-6219504

Weiss, Holger. “Reopening Work Among Colonial Seamen.” A Global Radical Waterfront: The International Propaganda Committee of Transport Workers and the International of Seamen and Harbour Workers, 1921 - 1937. Brill, 2021, pp. 161 - 179. 

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This week we actually get a couple of shipwrecks for the price of one, in our discussion of the SS Northern Pacific, which served in both civilian and military capacities during her 7-year sailing career.

[sources - full list to come]

Gentile, Gary. Shipwrecks of Delaware and Maryland. Gary Gentile Productions, 1990.

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