Beyond the Breakers

This week we discuss the Great Lakes Storm of 1913.

Recommended reading:

Schumacher, Michael. November's Fury: The Deadly Great Lakes Hurricane of 1913. (2013)


*Originally released 9/26/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/15/22

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**skip to about 9:30 to get right down to the business of the episode**

This week is actually a discussion of several incidents involving DUKWs, commonly known as "duck boats," with a focus on the 1999 Miss Majestic incident in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and the 2018 Table Rock Lake (Missouri) Ride The Ducks accident.  

NTSB Safety Recommendation Report

"Odd DUKW" (Smithsonian, 2002)

"... new duck boat company plans Branson operation"

*Originally released 9/20/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/18/22

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This week we discuss the 2015 sinking of the Russian freezer trawler Dalniy Vostok [Дальний Восток] in the Sea of Okhotsk.

*Originally released 9/6/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/16/22 

Sources referred to in the episode:

An animated representation of the sinking of Дальний Восток

Short interview footage with one of the survivors (with English subtitles)

ТАСС-English article from 4/7/15

'Крушение траулера "Дальний Восток"  в Охотском море' - Александр Крылов
- RIA Novosti article that was the primary Russian-language source for the episode

Затонувший траулер в Охотском море погубила жадность хозяев
- Komsomolskaya Pravda article

Russian trawler sinks off Kamchatka with 56 dead
- BBC News

'Trawler tragedy lifts veil on illegal recruitment' - Wa Lone and Laignee Barron  
- The Myanmar Times

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This week we discuss the deadliest incident for the US Navy of the post-WWII era, a fire aboard the carrier USS Forrestal  in July of 1967. 

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This week we discuss the sinking of the Royal Navy troop ship HMS Birkenhead off of the Cape Colony in 1852.

*Originally released 8/22/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/16/22  

"Women and Children First!" - Ben Johnson, historic.uk.com

Our Soldiers - W.H.G Kingston

Soldier an' Sailor too (Rudyard Kipling)

The Household Narrative of Current Events, April 1852
- Description of the events in the episode begin on p. 87

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This week we discuss the sinking of RMS Lancastria during allied evacuation operations near St. Nazaire in 1940. 

*Originally released 8/15/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/9/22

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This week we discuss the sinking of the fishing vessel Scandies Rose off of Alaska's Sutwik Island on New Year's Eve 2019.

Full public docket from the NTSB investigation

News report featuring an interview with one of the surviving deckhands

*Originally released 8/9/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/16/22

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In this episode we discuss a 2006 accident involving the Canadian RO/RO ferry Queen of the North.


Link to the Transportation Safety Board of Canada report on this accident. 

*Originally released 8/2/21; edited and re-uploaded 3/1/22

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Here is our bonus episode from the month of June, now unlocked for everyone! Tanner is joined by Katie to discuss the movie (and book) The Perfect Storm. This is a good chance to revisit a pretty solid film and for you to get to know the third member of the podcast! 

**Error correction - in discussing the cast, I refer to "Michael McDonald" instead of the correct Christopher McDonald; the alliteration was too much to resist I guess. 

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This week we discuss the deadliest peacetime incident in the history of Australia's armed forces - the collision between HMAS Voyager and HMAS Melbourne. 


https://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-voyager-ii

Unfit To Command

4 Corners - HMAS Voyager

*Originally released 7/25/21; edited and re-uploaded 2/18/22

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