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Hey, listeners, I want to introduce you to My

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Favorite Murder on the Exactly Right

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Network. My Favorite Murder

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is a true crime comedy podcast hosted

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by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hard

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Stark. Since January of 2016, Karen

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and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest

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in true crime as they tell each other stories

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of infamous serial killers like the Night

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Stalker, mysterious cold cases,

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incredible survivor stories, and

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important events from history like the Tulsa

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Race Massacre of 1921.

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Plus each week, Karen and

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Georgia share listener stories, recommend

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books, podcasts, and TV shows that

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are getting them through their weeks and so

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much more. I'm about to play a clip from Episode 356

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of My Favorite Murder entitled Tugboat

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of Life, where Karen tells Georgia

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the rescue and survival story

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of Harrison Okina. Follow My

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This is Exactly Right. Hello.

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Hello. That's Georgia

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Hard Stark. That's

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Karen Kilgariff. Okay, so this starts

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May 28th, 2013. We're

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about 20 miles off the coast of Nigeria, 100

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yards below the surface of the Atlantic

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Ocean, three divers are

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approaching a sunken Jaskin

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tugboat. This boat, which

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had been towing a tanker in the

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oil-rich waters off of Nigeria, capsized

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during a storm two and a half days earlier.

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So these divers have gone down to the wreck. They

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have to make a report and investigate for the boat's

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parent company. It's down

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on the ocean floor upside down. And

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they also need to recover the bodies

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of the 12 crew members who died

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in that boat accident. So the

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divers descend 100 feet into the

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water, which is, just to get a sense of

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how deep that is, it's the height

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of a 10-story building. Wow. I,

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a hundred feet doesn't sound that intense.

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And then if you think about it that way, you're just like, yeah,

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they're way down there. Too tall. So

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these divers carry tools to get inside the boat.

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So they kind of have to break into an upside down boat.

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Plus they carry jack knives to

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protect against sharks or barracuda

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while they're down there.

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Because if they're recovering bodies,

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that means there's bodies in the water, which means

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there's predators in the water. So it's

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this job, I don't, the people who do

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this job are heroes in

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every sense because it's scary, it would

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be scary enough to go like deep

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sea diving just to look around. Yeah,

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totally.

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And then do a search and rescue. That would be

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just

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so intense. So they

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have to carry those tools plus a

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big underwater flashlight because it is pitch

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black down there. They also have microphones

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and cameras so that the boat up top that

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they dove from, the technicians up there

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can hear and see what they are

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seeing and communicate with them as

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they're investigating this wreck. So

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their every move in real time

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is being recorded and watched

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by a team. So when

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the divers reach the tugboat, they have to break

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inside, as I said. So

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this job requires a lot of skill, but

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also obviously a lot of emotional strength.

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They have to swim across the wreck. They

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have to swim through the tugboats, cabins

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and corridors, and then they have

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to handle nearly a dozen corpses.

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Very difficult work. It

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doesn't take long for them to find the first body

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and then the second, then two more. And

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as they keep searching, they're shining their flashlights

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into this murky salt water as they're

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talking to the technicians above who

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are watching everything. But then suddenly

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something happens, the cameras don't see. One

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of the divers, a South African man named Nico

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Van Heerden feels something

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whoosh across his back in the darkness.

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So

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you're holding a flashlight, the beam of light is going

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out. in front of you, you can't see what's

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behind you. Even if you turn to look. The

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descriptive word whoosh across your

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back is so chilling and

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so creepy. That's our

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researcher, Marin McLeishan. Good

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job, Marin, she's a great writer, a good researcher

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and a great writer. It whooshes across

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his back. Hate

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it.

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So also, Nico is the last

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diver in the row of divers. So

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no one is behind him to know

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that he's okay or not. He's last,

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so he's in the dark. It's so creepy. So

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he immediately spins around, he shines his light toward

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the feeling and what he sees is something

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straight out of a horror movie because now

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the crew above can see it too since

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he's turned around and it's on camera.

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A human hand reaching forward through

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the cloudy water beckoning at him.

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That's not what I was like. It's gonna

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be like a parrot fish

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or something like that. Not

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a human fucking- Those assholes. Oh

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my God. So

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it's all on camera. Nightmare.

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You can watch this footage. No,

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I don't want to. I don't either. I

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didn't do it even though I should have for this story, but

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I was like, I believe

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it and I get it. I don't need to see it happen.

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But you can if you're like that.

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Marin did, because she's a good researcher.

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She's like, it's clear from the footage that Nico

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freaks out, I mean, for a second, because

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Jesus Christ. But as a

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deep sea diver would need to be, like he immediately

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regains his composure. Right.

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Someone who's miked in the control room confirms

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that another corpse has been found. So

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Nico reaches out towards it. He gets

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a grip on the wrist

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and then it grabs him back. No, no, no, no.

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Now there's a wave of shock through the whole team.

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Then you hear a technician repeatedly say

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into the microphone, he's alive, he's alive, he's alive.

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Holy shit. This is

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Harrison O'Kenna and

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he survived this unbelievable.

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unbelievable shipwreck He

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is down at the bottom of the ocean and

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he is alive inside

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