Beyond the Breakers

Just a quick statement from us on the unfolding genocide in Gaza and what we feel are our responsibilities to speak out in opposition to a crime of historic magnitude. 

If you are looking for easily …

This is Part I of what became a two-part series on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, with special guest host Nick Williams. It was not originally planned as such, so Part I ends somewhat abruptl…

This is Part Two of Episode 115 covering the Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos (or, The Beeswax Wreck)

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**This was originally the October 2022 bonus episode, but is being released on main to fill the recording gap from Taylor's wedding/honeymoon. Enjoy!**

In this bonus episode we delve into all the juic…

In this third and final part of the story, we see the men of the whaleship Essex embark on a journey of thousands of miles in open whaleboats in the hope of reaching the safety of the South American …

Part Two of our series on the whaleship Essex brings us from Nantucket all the way around Cape Horn to the Pacific whaling grounds, and the climactic showdown with 'the largest and most terrible of a…

This week begins our multi-part episode on the whaleship Essex, famously 'stove by a whale' in 1820, leading to an epic tale of survival, determination, and just a bit of cannibalism.

Part I focuses …

Kaylee (@kayleefabulous) is back this week to share a story from Duluth - the sinking of the whaleback Thomas Wilson after a collision with the George Hadley.

Kaylee's Duluth dive bar write-up: https:…

**this episode does contain some instances of language that would normally be edited out in the main feed, but has been kept in the episode to preserve the direct quotes reported in Casey's article**

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This week we tell Part 1 of the tale of the Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos - alternatively referred to as 'The Beeswax Wreck' for reasons that will be made apparent.

This episode sets the back…

No new story this week, so this is a chat about how the podcast has developed and where we plan to take it in the future. We're back next week with your standard programming. 

Outro music is "Pique l…

For this week's episode we are back close to home for the tale of the steamer Phoenix, which burned off of Sheboygan WI in 1847, in what remains one of the worst tragedies on Lake Michigan. 

The music…

**a small correction to the episode - the French painter Édouard Manet did not observe the battle off Cherbourg personally, but used eyewitness and press accounts to reconstruct the events for his pa…

We're back in the Galveston area to discuss a very recent incident involving the fishing vessel Pappy's Pride and the chemical tanker Bow Fortune

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NTSB Report - Collision Between Tanker Bow Fo…

In this, one of our absolute favorite bonus episodes (originally released for patrons in September 2022), we discuss the brief but eventful life of the Pensacola lumber schooner Richard A. Bingham.

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This week we have a WWI story in the Mediterranean with the sinking of HMT Aragon off of Alexandria, Egypt. 

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This week it's the tale of the stern trawler Gaul, and the mystery of her 1974 sinking in the Barents Sea fishing grounds, leading to a decades-long search for answers. 

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Dispatches - "Secrets…

This week we go back to a place near and dear to us - Scapa Flow - for the story of the Royal Navy battleship HMS Royal Oak.

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Gorbahn, Katja. "Perpetrators, victims, heroes – the Second World W…

As we're in a new location this week, there's a good deal of background in this episode leading up to the sinking of the ferry Sinar Bangun on Lake Toba (Sumatra, Indonesia) in June 2018. This episod…

This week we travel back to the early days of steamers on the Great Lakes - Walk-In-The-Water. With the power of 73 horses and a little bit of a horned breeze, who knows what adventures we can have?

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