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.

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.

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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/

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

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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

The family road trip brings to mind an overpacked station wagon, some unimpressed kids in the back, and a couple of adults arguing up front over a comically large map. It’s supposed to be a good time but in reality, usually, it’s a bit of a nightmare. Especially if dad made a wrong turn. And then another… and it’s getting dark.

Marooned has a facebook group! Look us up and interact with us there. :-)

Sources:

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2011/01/kati_kim_speaks_out_on_oregonl.html

https://abcnews.go.com/2020/kati-kim-tells-heart-wrenching-story-family-ended/story?id=12884927

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49f9SiLmgEk

https://www.oregonlive.com/editors/2013/04/kim_familys_fatal_oregon_journ.html

History is often written by the victors - or in this case - a man named Vilhjalmur Stefansson who made a living and a name for himself by using other people's money to put unsuspecting explorers in peril. 

This is the true story of Ada Blackjack.

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Tuesday April 25th, 2006. 9:26 PM. The small mining town of Beaconsfield in

Tasmania, Australia will soon find itself  under the media’s spotlight - having lost the light of miners to collapse. 

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Sources:

Beaconsfield (TV Movie 2012)

https://youtu.be/xKzFfX3qtik?si=CgBojCD3LHZv0Uct

60 Minutes Australia 

https://youtu.be/LXC-LYD-4LU?si=vrInOhpDoKc8NiCS

Larry Knight Coroner Inquest

https://eagcg.org/common/pdf/Beaconsfield.pdf

Mineaccidents .com

http://www.mineaccidents.com.au/uploads/beaconsfield-investigation-report.pdf

Maroon - to leave someone trapped and isolated in an inaccessible place, especially an island. Admittedly, stories that closely fit that definition are more difficult to come by than we originally thought. This episode, however, fits the bill.

Resources:

Book ~ Fleming, Gregory N. At the Point of a Cutlass. 2014

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.