Today’s podcast will feature 2 sailing horror stories. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel, which is just called "MrBallen," and has been remastered for today's podcast.Story names, previews & links to original YouTube videos:#2 -- "Survivor’s Guilt" -- Sailors have many "customs of the sea," but there is one that is exceptionally dark and once it begins, there's no going back for that crew. (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54toJMsfg94)#1 -- "The Kaz II" -- 3 friends' trip of a lifetime turns into a nightmare (Original YouTube link -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWOMY0JQdFs)For 100s more stories like these, check out our main YouTube channel just called "MrBallen" -- https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallenIf you want to reach out to me, contact me on Instagram, Twitter or any other major social media platform, my username on all of them is @mrballenSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: What stories are featured in this episode of Open Sea?
Today's podcast will feature two sailing horror stories. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Survivor's Guilt.
While sailors are known to have many customs of the sea, there is one custom that is exceptionally dark. And once it begins, there's no going back. And that is the custom we will talk about in this story. And the second and final story you'll hear is called The Kaz 2. And it's about three friends' trip of a lifetime that turns into a nightmare.
But before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format, then you've come to the right podcast because that's all we do and we upload twice a week. Once on Monday and once on Thursday.
So, if that's of interest to you, please go through all of the Amazon Music Follow Button social media posts and be sure to correct all of their fans' spelling and grammar mistakes in the comments section. Okay, let's get into our first story, called Survivor's Guilt. On the morning of February 6th, 1821, four young men stood on the deck of a small boat out in the Pacific Ocean.
The sun was out, it was beautiful and warm, the water was crystal blue, but none of these four men were paying any attention to their surroundings. Instead, all of them were just standing there in total silence, staring at each other. Finally, one of the four men spoke up. His name was Owen Coffin, and he was 18 years old. And Owen, like the other three men, had grown up on the water.
In fact, all four of these men had grown up on this small island called Nantucket, off the coast of Massachusetts, where the main industry there was whaling. Which meant sailors like these four men would go out and hunt whales and slaughter them for their oil.
So from the time Owen and the rest of these men were very little, they were out on the water learning how to sail, and they were also learning the customs of the sea. And there was one custom in particular that Owen wanted to talk about right now with the other three men.
So in a very serious and hushed tone, Owen asked the question of the other three men that sailors referred to as the delicate question. And after Owen asked the so-called delicate question, the other three men, who were already very serious and just kind of standing there in silence, suddenly their eyes started to go wide and their mouths went agape.
And then again, all of the men just kind of fell into total silence. The only sound they could hear was the splashing of the waves against the side of the boat. The captain of this vessel was a man named George Pollard. He was 28 years old, and he was actually Owen's older cousin. And what George wanted to say to Owen in response to his delicate question was no. But George didn't say that.
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Chapter 2: What is the story behind 'Survivor’s Guilt'?
But independently, on this day, they looked out near Champagne Bay and they saw the Kaz-2 sailing east to west in the exact same spot that Isabel had seen it the day before. Now, remember, the Caz 2 was traveling from that marina on the northeast side of Australia all the way around to Perth. It was a point A to point B trip.
There was no reason the Caz 2 would ever double back and be in the same place 24 hours later, but here we were 24 hours later, and two more people are seeing the Caz 2 in the same place that Isabel had seen it, and so that made no sense. But again, these two men who saw the Kaz-2, they just saw it and thought nothing of it because they don't know anything about this boat.
It wasn't until later that they eventually came forward with what they saw. Then one more day after that, on April 17th, there were these fishermen that were out in their boats a little farther north of Champagne Bay, where Isabelle and the two other men had seen the CAS-2 on consecutive days. And these fishermen, they spotted the CAS-2. And again, these fishermen do not know the CAS-2.
They don't know its occupants. They're just seeing the ship. Except this time, the fishermen, when they saw the CAS-2, they thought something was wrong. because they saw the Kaz-2 from a distance navigating its way fairly close to shore in an area that these fishermen knew was full of coral reefs. It's a very dangerous area to be piloting any ship.
In addition, the sail of the Kaz-2 was totally ripped to shreds. And so the fishermen, they're looking at the ship, wondering what they're doing, but the pilot of the ship looked so in control as he's navigating his way through the coral reefs that the fishermen thought, okay, he knows what he's doing, so, you know, leave him alone. But again, later on, they would report what they saw.
It wasn't until the next day, April 18th, so three days after Des, Peter, and Jim had set sail, that anybody realized there was an issue with the crew of the Kaz-2.
Because on April 18th, a Coastwatch surveillance helicopter was flying over the Great Barrier Reef, and they looked down and they saw the CAS-2 with its badly damaged sails, piloting all around this very dangerous part of the water to be piloting.
And so the crew on board the helicopter attempted to radio down to the CAS-2 to see if they were okay, but no one from the CAS-2 called back to the helicopter. And so as they're waiting for a response from the Kaz 2, the helicopter crew is watching the pilot of the Kaz 2 clearly, you know, navigating the boat in between coral reefs.
And it seemed like, you know, despite the damage to the sails, he knew what he was doing. And so to the crew on the helicopter, this didn't really look like an emergency, but it seemed like something worth flagging. And so they called the Marine police and said, hey, we have the ship here that's not responding. We think they're OK, but you might want to come take a look.
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