Survived Six Days: The Hatch Cover That Shouldn't Float
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Survived Six Days: The Hatch Cover That Shouldn't Float
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A woman survived six days adrift on a fifty-four-inch piece of waterlogged plywood that, by weight and physics, should have submerged her; inside her jacket pocket a child's brass compass sat bone dry. What made a teak-framed hatch cover-too small to hold two people and not from the capsized boat-appear at the capsize site, and how did April Weber navigate sixty-three miles to shore while planes flew overhead twice?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from departure to recovery, laying out the known facts and the anomalies that refuse a tidy explanation, and ask whether the official record captures what really happened to April Weber and her companion that night.
Person: April Weber
Age: 28
Date: June 1-June 9, 2017
Vessel: 32-foot sloop Kestrel
Location: ~40 miles west of Tillamook Head
- April Weber was found alive after six days in the ocean, face-down on a waterlogged plank.
- The drifting hatch cover measured 54 inches by 32 inches and had stainless hinges along one edge.
- The Kestrel’s EPIRB activated at 02:17 and transmitted the last known position before submerging.
- Wind gusts reached 38 knots and swell climbed to 12 feet before the vessel capsized.
- April carried a child's brass camping compass in her offshore jacket pocket; its crystal was cracked but the compass was bone dry.
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