"On the 12th of October, 1973, the coastal freighter Blythe Star set sail on a routine voyage to King Island, in the Bass Strait..."

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Intro
00:49 - Background
02:13 - The Sinking of the Blythe Star
09:23 - The Aftermath

MUSIC:
► "Glass Pond" by Public Memory

SOURCES:
► "'You can’t be – they're all dead': the miracle and tragedy of Tasmania's Blythe Star shipwreck" by Donna Lu, published by The Guardian, May 2023. Link: https://www.theguardian.com/australia...
► "The Blythe Star - The Last Survivor" by Seven News Australia, 2016. Available via: https://vimeo.com/164933710
► The Australasian Underwater Cultural Heritage Database, published by the Australian Government. Link: http://www.environment.gov.au/shipwre...
► "Whatever Happened to Blythe Star" by Michael Stoddart, published by Signals, March 2021. Available via: https://issuu.com/anmmuseum/docs/sign...

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