Jun 4, 2026 · 49 min · 9 segments
A Coast Guardsman scans the dark, starry horizon with a pair of night vision goggles. He’s looking for hazards in the water and other ships. But nothing can prepare him for what he’s about to see. And…
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Glynn WashingtonHostJordanGuestLeianne DurantGuesthere.It's half past midnight.
I'm out here by myself on the catwalk, standing my watch, doing my lookout.
This is a Famous-class cutter, bow to stern, two hundred and seventy feet long, white with the famous U.S. Coast Guard orange racing stripe on the front.
At this point, the ship is off the coast of New England.
Even being late spring, it's still pretty cold.
The wind is blowing.
I'm bundled up in what we call a float coat, essentially a rain jacket with a life jacket built into it.
It's a pretty dark night.
It was very starry out, but the moon had very little illumination this particular night.
So I'm using night vision goggles, and I'm looking for hazards, essentially, things floating in the water, other ships that we might not see on radar.
At this point, I'm about an hour and a half into my watch.
It's, it's been a pretty quiet night.
I'm doing a scan with my night vision, just looking towards the front of the ship, and I see there's a person standing at the f- forward-most point of the bow, about seventy feet away from me, with his arms outstretched.
It's the middle of the night.
There aren't very many people awake at this point, and for someone to be out there in the pitch-black darkness, standing on the front of the ship, that rings alarm bells in my head.
I'm concerned about the worst-case scenario, that this person is out there with the intent to jump off.
Right away, I have to look again.
You know, did I actually just see that? I pick up my NVGs again and look out, and it's very clearly a person standing there, just the silhouette of a person.
I can tell that it's a man.
He's got a military-style haircut, and I can tell that they're wearing the Coast Guard uniform, not by any color, just by the sort of silhouette of it.
I'm yelling, "Hey, what are you doing out there?" You know, "Hey," you know, just trying to get their attention.
The OD, uh, the officer of the deck, the person in charge of navigation of the ship, she's inside the bridge.
This OD has heard me screaming.
She's my boss as a seaman, and she has come out to see what the deal is.
She's short, probably 5'2", blonde woman with big, like, porthole glasses, just these big, round glasses that you, you practically can't see past when you're talking to her.
here.It's half past midnight.
I'm out here by myself on the catwalk, standing my watch, doing my lookout.
This is a Famous-class cutter, bow to stern, two hundred and seventy feet long, white with the famous U.S. Coast Guard orange racing stripe on the front.
At this point, the ship is off the coast of New England.
Even being late spring, it's still pretty cold.
The wind is blowing.
I'm bundled up in what we call a float coat, essentially a rain jacket with a life jacket built into it.
It's a pretty dark night.
It was very starry out, but the moon had very little illumination this particular night.
So I'm using night vision goggles, and I'm looking for hazards, essentially, things floating in the water, other ships that we might not see on radar.
At this point, I'm about an hour and a half into my watch.
It's, it's been a pretty quiet night.
I'm doing a scan with my night vision, just looking towards the front of the ship, and I see there's a person standing at the f- forward-most point of the bow, about seventy feet away from me, with his arms outstretched.
It's the middle of the night.
There aren't very many people awake at this point, and for someone to be out there in the pitch-black darkness, standing on the front of the ship, that rings alarm bells in my head.
I'm concerned about the worst-case scenario, that this person is out there with the intent to jump off.
Right away, I have to look again.
You know, did I actually just see that? I pick up my NVGs again and look out, and it's very clearly a person standing there, just the silhouette of a person.
I can tell that it's a man.
He's got a military-style haircut, and I can tell that they're wearing the Coast Guard uniform, not by any color, just by the sort of silhouette of it.
I'm yelling, "Hey, what are you doing out there?" You know, "Hey," you know, just trying to get their attention.
The OD, uh, the officer of the deck, the person in charge of navigation of the ship, she's inside the bridge.
This OD has heard me screaming.
She's my boss as a seaman, and she has come out to see what the deal is.
She's short, probably 5'2", blonde woman with big, like, porthole glasses, just these big, round glasses that you, you practically can't see past when you're talking to her.
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